Alicante artist Luis Sanus saves your pulse abstraction in his new exhibition atmaninaugurated This Friday at 19.00.At the Mutua Levante Foundation alcoyplace of birth 52 years. On the return “home” Sanus offers: about thirty worksmostly painting exhibitionIt is among the fruits of this initiative made in the last four years, as well as its recent breakthrough. statuecalm to convey his current state, represented of course by an explosion of color.
“I’d like to think it’s something the reflection of my soul, as little sifted as possible by thought, and this means me energy“, points out Luis Sanus, addressing the title of the exhibition: atmanTranslated as spirit and accompanying its image with adjectives such as “bright and positive”.
Despite He started abstract painting in the 90s After graduating from the Department of Fine Arts at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Sanus turned to dream figuration, which “contains a lot of abstract expressionism,” but said he turned to abstract expressionism before the pandemic when he “felt” he was returning to abstraction. I shouldn’t have said too much or summarized the picture in rational messages”.
“No nothing premeditated I stand behind my works. I’ve been talking and blaming for so long that I got tired of listening to myself – laughs – and now the calm has come. I am very calm, I meditate and do yoga and enjoy the little things in daily life. I’m trying to get dirty but I don’t let my head speak the messages, I repeat a movement without a prior plan and the result is what emerges after many sessions, but I ignore it in the overload of messages and thoughts. I can say that it is call for calm In the midst of all this turmoil,” explains the artist from Alcoy.
“No nothing premeditated I stand behind my works. I’ve been talking and blaming for so long that I got tired of listening to myself – laughs – and now the calm has come. I am very calm, I meditate and do yoga and enjoy the little things in daily life. I’m trying to get dirty but I don’t let my head speak the messages, I repeat a movement without a prior plan and the result is what emerges after many sessions, but I ignore it in the overload of messages and thoughts. I can say that it is call for calm In the midst of all this turmoil,” explains the artist from Alcoy.
Even though there are references to this in the brush strokes Pollock or Kooning in action art (action painting), points out that this happens “like this” I act on the picture without pre-planning it.but yes in them There was an animal scream I am angry at the world, but not at my situation; “I inherited his mannerisms but not his essence.”
Painting on negatoscopes
It is in the exhibition 8 sculptural “exercises” -currently studying Artistic Ceramics at Easda in Alicante- and also 7 paintings made with negatoscopesdevices used for observation x-ray, because many medical centers destroy these devices. “I’ve always made things with paints phosphorous and I really like working with light and not with it. “I put black and white LED lights in here with a timer and the paint changes,” he explains after receiving these light boxes thanks to a friend who works at the hospital.
The exhibition can be viewed until the next date 11 March.