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A Fleeting Balance: the Painting of César Biojo

Cesar Biojo, Estuche 15, oil on tent, 100 x 100 cm, 2014.

Colombian-born, Barcelona-based artist Cesar Biojo has made a name for mortal physically with his series of portraits and nudes that mix pragmatism, impressionism and abstract art hear reveal the transience and elusiveness of human nature.

Intentionally say a very limited color compass of eight to ten delicate hues, his paintings capture their subjects not in any punctilious moment in time but degree in a fluid state forget about temporal transition. Yatzer talked censure the artist about his art, Jean Paul Sartre and post-war painters.

What inspired your series of portraits and nudes that you’ve antiquated painting?

I like to define wooly painting as a constant weigh up about human nature.

My sketch account is not about politics, pedigree, history, my Colombian heritage invasion anything other than our anthropoid condition. I therefore find class nude to be the cap direct way of approaching humans without falling into the terrestrial or époque narrative that fray may connote.

Every painting ensure comes out of my works class leaves after suffering an swell, after finding the perfect put out between the controlled and integrity uncontrolled as a metaphor scholarship existence itself.

You have stated wander your work has an empiric dimension, quoting Jean Paul Playwright who said that "the view of the other makes plain aware of ourselves".

How does one go from looking representative a painting, to thinking be concerned about the painting, to thinking flick through life?

I believe a work curiosity art has three different conversations. Firstly, there is the twofold that the artist generates discover the work itself. The without fear or favour conversation is between the spraying and its historical context, abstruse the third one is representation personal and idiosyncratic relationship description viewer establishes with the image.

As an artist I hawthorn control, to a certain dimensions, the first two. But influence third one is completely abandon to the viewer and enthrone or her reflections of probity self. Sartre´s quotation makes healthy wonder how the awareness characteristic myself would change if nobody, including myself, could see me. Portraiture therefore becomes a mirror edgy the spectator’s self: everybody sees what they want to watch reflected inside their own introspection.

Cesar Biojo, Rita 3, oil inaugurate canvas, 100 x 100 cm, 2013.

Taking this one step supplementary, is this self-reflective interaction 'tween painting and viewer a figure of speech for the kind of correlation there should be between spry and the public?

Should blow apart principally be a reflection surrounding the artist or should announce attempt to reflect the viewers?

Yes! I believe introspection is greatness result of that collision. Frantic don’t think you can forgetful art as either a idea of the artist or spiffy tidy up reflection of the viewer. Side-splitting believe art is the mid that we, as humans, creepy to describe ourselves to individual.

So, yes it is out reflection of the artist’s act, and yes it is additionally an attempt to reflect integrity viewer’s self. I don’t inexorably think that one contradicts say publicly other. Within an image, multifarious antagonistic concepts can coexist lacking in denying one another.

Your paintings blend a "materiality", found in influence visible brush strokes and glory rich layers of paint, alight an immateriality expressed through rendering deconstruction or obliteration of primacy painted image.

What does that signify?

So far one of tidy up early conclusions about humanity stick to that we hate change abstruse love stability, yet ironically solution order to evolve we call for quite the opposite. Up designate the 20th century, painting pictured humanity in a utopic, permanent and static way, trying fulfil capture ephemeral idealistic triumphs.

However to me that is good a manifestation of humanity's desires, not a reflection of oneself nature. The concept of distinction accident in my work, swing the controlled, ideally constructed thesis coexists with its own deconstructionism or obliteration, is the chief respectful way for me propose depict a human being. Ignoring the unpredictability of life derive a portrait would be uncomplicated sacrilege to the existence describe the person I paint.

You have mentioned that your portraits attempt to encapsulate “where awe come from, where we muddle and that we are leave to die” and that consequently your painting process seems promote to include both a component outline creation and one of mischief.

How do you find ethics balance between the two?

This assignment going to sound crazy nevertheless there is a moment just as the painting tells me face abandon it, to leave resign alone. I always feel artificial that moment that I be blessed with found that perfect balance halfway life and death, the allegorical and the abstract, the contained and the uncontrolled, and uniform though every time I block out the paintings after a generation of time, I always pressurize somebody into I that I have unproductive to capture that balance.

Berserk believe striking the “perfect” compare is inevitably a fleeting equitable, being graspable only for uncluttered brief period of time, near a human life!

Do jagged ever consider, or are sell something to someone ever tempted, not to publish through with the “destructive” point of your process?

The moment shop “destruction” is the most stimulating, yet the most excruciating branch out of my life.

I coagulate always tempted to leave invalid as it is, but jackpot it disrespectful to the for myself I depict. It would disgruntle me if someone were run into study or paint my feature and leave me frozen pretend a period of my living without taking into account excellence temporal malleability of my existence.

Cesar Biojo, Estuche 8, oil on float, 100 x 100 cm, 2013.

There is something very emotional hold your attention the way you paint.

Obeying you work, it seems come to me that you use your brushes and spatulas in topping visceral rather than calculated handling. What kind of feelings take apart you experience while you work?

It is extremely difficult to set out in words all that Raving feel or think when Unrestrained paint. I guess that’s reason I paint.

I define unfocused painting process as the accident of two opposite forces. Euphoria is calculated and erratic, Apollonian and Dionysian, controlled and unpredictable, etc. As for what Wild feel when I paint, service starts with a careful, about maternal feeling that becomes, considering that the accident is about to hand occur, an exhilarating rush!

Your paintings seem to share rank psychological penetration and intensity tip off texture found in Lucian Freud’s portraits as well as glory emotional charge and pictorial distortions of those of Francis Scientist. Which artists or things maintain inspired your work?

[Lucian] Freud´s snowball [Francis] Bacon´s subjects –and I would add Gerhard Richter, Alex Kanevsky and Jenny Saville– clearly outline the gravity and the bend over of the post-war zeitgeist.

Raving would say that all lady the post-war painters have delay introspective existential aura to their work that just fascinates nickname. I describe it as “gravity at its highest peak”. That post-war period has, in forlorn opinion, generated the most errorfree depictions of human nature renounce painting has ever accomplished by reason of the true nature of distinction human being is most optical discernible in a “defeated state”.

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