Art & Life

«…Art can be a conceptual problem for the creator, but it shouldn’t be for the spectator, as soon as he gives himself up. When Pedro Pablo Alonso asks us for an open and trusting dedication to reach the enjoyment of beauty, it is because he has gone ahead to clear the way for us.» Thought by Melchor Fernández Díaz in his text for the catalog of the first individual exhibition, at the Nicanor Piñole Gallery, in Gijón, in 1983.

Painting is for me an exploration of the capacity of color and the plastic image to evoke, provoke and transmit feelings, and to be memory, a human trace.

I conceive the pictorial language as an abstract way of narrating, radically subjective, intimate, seeking connection with the “art reader” through intuition and empathy.

For decades I have shared two very different languages, plastic and written, to which I link the need to know and understand, to explore to discover, and a will to communicate, to give testimony about the vicissitudes and mysteries of life, of nature, on the facts, also the historical ones, that build what we are.

Two languages ​​as a guide to navigate the labyrinth of existence, to help us live.

Emotion and mystery

I paint what moves and amazes me, the mysteries of space and nature that inspire and disturb.I try to understand what I am reflecting emotions.I paint to understand the ritual of solitude in art.I trace the memory of events and places that make up our history. (2022)

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Mountain range

3.4.1985 The roots of the “Mountain range” series are in the Sierra del Aramo, which can be seen from the windows of the new studio. The strength of the Aramo is great despite its dimensions. They are powerful mountains and the setting sun gives them the appearance of a great […]

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Waterfall

27.4.1985 I start the “Waterfall” and “Shady” series and continue with “Mountain range”. I am beginning to introduce changes in the treatment of the brushwork and the form. The clearly outlined and individualized line tends to disappear to give priority to the masses of color in which the sign or […]

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Rubén Suárez, a light for art in Asturias

Rubén Suárez is an essential figure in the art of recent decades in Asturias. His work, collected in important editions and in a very high number of texts, published for decades in the “Cultura” supplement of La Nueva España, is an inescapable reference to understand what has been and is […]

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Bellver, the resistance continues

It is a small miracle that Bellver is twenty years old. Since that November 1, 1996, so many things have changed in society and in the worlds of journalism and culture that the survival of these eight weekly pages, with the sole support of the newspaper that publishes it, Diario […]

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