Art and Radiology. Period I and II Wall Art

You’re welcome to this collection.  I am prone to deformity and drama as splendid art topics. What provokes me to make up these works are medical radiological studies done to anonymous persons. I’m always open to new manifestations of reality, to making an empathic exercise to comprehend the conditions of others. Tragedy connects me with the characters that call my interest. Maybe it is an empathic “inner movement” that binds my life with theirs. Or perhaps it’s the other way around. Maybe they’re “open” and that opening appears in front of me, compelling me to “freeze the moment”–to generate an artwork. Of course, this is only one way of putting things together, but not suggesting it’s all that has to be said about it. Philosophers can illuminate us much more in the art creation process. Their theories, or corpora, might help us understand it in a better way. In my Art and Radiology collection–Period I and Period II–the precarious conditions of man–temporality, decay, fragility–are the central topic of my work. The initial sources I use are radiological medical studies performed on sick, genderless, anonymous persons: a Jane or John Doe. I call the results of my work “Human Landscapes”, where I explore the carnal material that makes us human. I’ve divided this collection into two periods of my production: Period I go from 2000 to 2003, while Period II gathers artworks I’ve created from 2015 to the present.  My Pictorial Currents. Because of the above mentioned, the pictorial currents of my work in this collection are figurative and abstract. Sometimes, the work stands right in the middle: it’s semi-figurative or else semi-abstract. The media and techniques of my choice are oil, acrylic on canvas or paper in medium and small format (70 square inches up to 8 by 11 inches). My Art Influences. The poetic experience that drove my attention to medical topics is the work of the painter Francis Bacon (1909-1992, Ireland), whose sources, in some of his works, are medical X-rays done to human bodies and animals. I find this grand master’s resources fascinating.  Therefore, I introduce into my work the medical results of today’s modern imaging: radiography, angiography, tomography, fluoroscopy, magnetic resonance, 3D X-rays, etc. Images of diagnosis and medical solutions trying to restructure our human “carnality” mitigating its decay, its deformity, its pain... are all topics of my work. What comes out of this appropriation, as I have cited, are “maps” or “Human Landscapes” of organisms that reveal their decayed condition. I don’t seek to capture realistically the human organs or implants that modern medical imaging provides, but to reinterpret them–in a kind of pictorial-poetic gap that recreates human nature. In fact, I try to recreate a new order of the elements that I take from my sources. In this way, the hip, the rib cage, the skull, the spine, hands, heart, lungs... those are just some of the organs explored in my pictorial of the human body. In it there is a “triple sight”–that of the medical apparatus, the one of my own, and the third one is the re-creator’s. Thank you for visiting.

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