Cartesián Design and artistic creation

Statement

The main sources of inspiration for my work are science and technology, but also some other humanistic disciplines like history, handwritting, typography, cartography, etc.

I feel a special attraction for experimenting with the possibilities of artistic creation of the digital tools, in particular algorithms, and some materials.

The expressive capacities of color.

Color is probably one of the day to day experiences more unknown in its roots. Is a physical phenomenon in which we are immersed all along our lives and whose perception is deeply conditioned by the particular human visual system.

The color is not only an aesthetic expression, it is also a powerful language to convey emotions, and like other sensorial perceptions – sound, odor – brings passed experiences back to our minds.

I try to explore different chromatic gamuts associated to every day experiences like watching the fire, watching the sea, watching the sky, etc.

All my creative process, from the early drafts, through the different design refining stages up to the final version is carried out with the computer. The computer tools along with my own programms provide me with a great creative flexibility to evaluate different alternatives.

My work is accessible to all audiences though in some cases probably those with some knowledge about the specific subject represented may benefit from a deeper understanding of its meaning.

ArtWork

Collection Elements

Genesis

In a highly technified world like ours there still remain much unknown topics at the boundary of the human knowledge. The atomic physics search for answers to the inner matter structure: quarks, neutrino, Higgs boson, etc.

But those scientific concerns raised long ago in the classical Greek civilization when Presocratic philosophers asked themselves the same question, What the world is made of? Which are the components that made up all the matter? and they came to the conclussion that everything is made of a combination of four elements: Fire, Water, Earth and Air.

This collection arises as a tribute to those philosophers, pioneer scientifics who dared to tackle the challenge that even today remains open.

Language

This work explores the expressive capacities of color asking the question: is it possible to represent a concept using an abstract chromatic description without using shapes?

With this approach the author doesn´t claim any particular originality but to provoke in the spectator mind a reflection about the meaning of color and its aesthetics attributes. The color is a sensorial perception associated to the light – color doesn´t exist without light. Color is not an object´s property but the outcome of the interaction between the object and light.

The author uses a chromatic palette of shades in different hues to vaguely suggest the underlying shapes and leaves to the spectator´s imagination to figure out what the scene means. The tiles individually colored allow to preserve the chromatic essence of the scene and to subtly blur the shapes. In some way it could be said that the work presents two reading layers, one inmediate and spontaneous focused on the abstract chromatic perception and a second rested and more reflective to grasp the message.

Symbolism

This is a work with an explicit symbolism that doesn´t require any special intellectual effort for understanding it. It is ready and open to everyone.

The four elements are universal concepts endowed with a huge evocative capacity that the author uses to show to the spectator his personal rendering of these four experiences. The particular interpretation chosen, in all cases, is just one among the myriad of posibilities to express the alive dynamism of the nature by means of hue chromatic resources.

Any person, regardless of his/her historic context, could easily understand the clear, open and direct message that the work convey.