Grace/fool Love

The act of falling is always perceived by the ‘Other’ as a foolish act, in the English language when one gets enamoured with someone one ‘falls’ in love, since this love exposes our vulnerabilities, shifts our sense of self and paradigms of reality. In our contemporary capitalist culture rooted in materialism the highest and the most foolish form of love is the love of the mystics as in this case the figure of ‘the lover’ is in itself non personified non material and non existent.

Grace/fool Love uses sculpture and painting methods to explore the possibility of encountering some sort of transcendence or mystical love within artistic practice from a universal perspective in the fruitful space which encompasses Western and Eastern perspectives, narratives, sensibility and aesthetics. The relationship between figure and background, perspective and representation, figuration and abstraction revisit classic Western and Eastern concerns and themes from a contemporary framework.

Materials such as glass emphasize the feelings of nakedness, fragility, transparency and beauty of falling in love. Ropes, rubbers, plaster, resins and the presence of mould making traces in the oil paintings and finished sculptures bring the process to the fore, hinting that the most relevant and aesthetic solutions present themselves in accidents, mistakes or unplanned failed turns.

Thus “Grace/fool Love” is a play on words aimed to emphasize an attitude of foolishness towards grace. Adopting the anachronistic crazy wisdom of Don Quixote or the admiration for the apparently meaningless things of Zhuanzi, I am trying “like a fool” to grasp some sort of freedom which springs from an expansion of the sensorial experience which takes place when we make an Artwork or fall in love. A human condition which resides at the core of different world views and understandings of reality, beyond dogma and cultural misconceptions.