An artist’s cosmic journey into the unconscious, uncovering hints of the primordial energy that makes up everything that has ever existed.

The experiences of my whole life, which have become sedimented in my unconscious, are purified as they rise up above the waterline of mysticism and materialize into works of art.

They are all fragments of memory dispersed in the world, preserved, brought to life and relived by new viewer-actors. And yet they remain bound together by their common origin, like filaments of a primordial energetic weave.

Similarly, as individuals, we all are unconsciously brought together in a spiritual and social web, as particles waiting to reconnect. Like atoms on a cosmic journey.

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Quarantine /

2020-ongoing

The work of art adapts to limited spaces, creates new forms, bends to other geometries, emotional and physical; the fragile, malleable paper, like a skin with its imprints, becomes a shield, a sacred mantle, or a shroud.

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An intimate journey 2019-21

Large single paintings, brass or iron plates, a daily journal of the artist made of signs, engravings, traces of landscapes of the soul, intimate emotions, left to the elements; time, slowly, imprints the work just like life events do with us, bringing about an unprecedented transformation.

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Iron and Paper / 2018

Installations on large 60x60 iron plates, iron and paper, the iron cold and strong, the paper sensitive, fragile and warm; the intersection of two techniques, monotypes glued like travel diaries on a notebook.

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Muxart / 2016-17

Installation of magnetized iron sheets with monotype technique. The chessboard becomes a domino, a Rubik's cube, the artist dislocates the pawns, and as he enters the game, he does not lose his identity, but creates infinite combinations of his own experience, existence, essence.

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10 years / 2015

A seven-meter installation, monotypes on magnetized iron plates. A metaphorical chessboard of life with characters that move and take on roles in a game of symbols in which each of us can identify our own message, or our past, our memory.

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Collages / 2011-14

Collages of original fragments of monotype on paper, collected in the last fifteen years, a form of collecting or recycling the artist's own work; glued one by one on wooden frames, they create fabrics, tapestries, mandalas, intimate villages of memories.

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Fragments / 2008-10

Original monotypes on paper, cut and applied on galvanized iron sheets or on wood. The viewers interact with the work and create their own installations, getting in touch with the artist and with themselves, with their own lives and their ancestral, present and future memory.

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First works /

2005-07

Monotype as a simple engraving in black and white on paper, very graphic, still without decomposition, symbolic elements to create ordered compositions, prelude of the subsequent need to fragment, look for new horizons, visions, points of view, and experiment, mixing with other techniques.