Desintegración formal

Oil on canvas.

36x46x1"

The face, although recognizable, is fractured, interfered by lines, stains and gestural strokes that seem chaotic. This can be seen as an allusion to the thought of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, who argued that the perception of the body and the world is never total or objective, but an unfinished phenomenon, in constant development. The figure here is not represented as a solid unit, but as an open field, where experience is inscribed with violence and beauty.

The green color as a base can symbolize the natural, the essential, while blue and white burst in as thoughts, memories, cultural constructions or emotions. This tension between background and form recalls the Heideggerian idea that being is not a static object, but a revelation that occurs in time, through concealment and concealment.

The face seems to look, but not clearly: the eyes are marked but incomplete, as if it were a consciousness that tries to emerge.

This resonates with the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, who saw the face as the ethical place par excellence, a call to the other, an interpellation. In this work, the face seems to scream silently from the chaos, asking to be understood, but also warning that all understanding will always be partial.

In short, the painting could be interpreted as an allegory of the contemporary subject: interrupted, crossed by multiple discourses, looking for a center that no longer exists, but that still insists on manifesting itself strongly.