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The oldest man

The oldest man

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Measurements: height 140 cm, width 95 cm
Technique: acrylic, pigments, gesso, waxes, pencil and spray paint.
Support: canvas

Painting created through free improvisation. Action painting with music by Chopin.


A humanoid from the future comes to prebiotic Earth, falls down a waterfall, and his body disintegrates, scattering his genetic material to create life and humans on our planet.

This scene from the film Prometheus and the paintings in the Chauvet Cave construct this story of past and future. The contrasts between what makes us human and our animal essence.

We are only animals, yet we speak with the Gods. We hunt and paint. We farm and pray. We are insignificant and gigantic at the same time. Simple and magical. We are nothing, or perhaps the only thing.

We, who are Nature but have become something else.

Gestural, intuitive painting that lets things happen and relies on what emerges. Taking advantage of the unexpected and accepting the consequences.

The unknown, that which slips through our fingers... Nature, antiquity, the earthly and the spiritual.

The need to tell stories, to leave a mark, to understand the world, which is always both modern and ancient.

Nothing matters much... Working with a lost look in my eyes...


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