Metamorphosis

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There is an explosion of lines, stains and dripping with multiple evocations in his work: sometimes we think in a pond with aquatic plants, sometimes in a garden, sometimes in a clearing of a forest. When it becomes liquid and slides by the painting we think of lianas in the jungle or jets of water falling by walls of moss. The vibrating colours –Nomdedeu not only dares with difficult green but makes green his primary colour- it evokes exotic flowers, with its intense red and yellow scattered throughout the picture. The blue and lilac give a counterpoint and suggest depth. Sometimes the lines become restless, dancing all over the surface, all the painting is set in motion and then we think about his admired De Kooning.
But there is also a less idyllic side in this work that the artist himself has titled Metamorphosis. It is about a bucolic reality that disintegrates, explodes in flashes of colour in which a horizon or outline doesn´t exist. Yes, it is an all-over, that way of composing invented by Monet and continued by Pollock: a painting without any hierarchical structure where everything becomes as important. Or is it the symbol of a contemporary reality where there is no eternal truths, the principles are fluid and nothing seems understandable? The viewer should interpret.

From: 26-3-2015

To: 30-4-2015