Shanghai Garden – Juan Olivares, ART PALMA BRUNCH

Painting is very close to what happens, to the permanent flow of things. Painting is a way of experiencing and creating continuously that helps us know ourselves. For a few years now, my work has been inspired by the painting process. If we focus our attention on the process itself, there are many elements that are painting in and of themselves. The preparation of a primer, the choice of support, the palette, the discards…

The palette incessantly accumulates mixtures and searches, but it also stores all the time a painting or a series of paintings needs to be revealed. Heraclitus affirms that the foundation of everything is in incessant change. Everything is transformed into a process of continuous birth and destruction from which nothing escapes. In the palette, we can discern the traces of that process. In this sense, the most recent paintings are containers of experiences and searches for small revelations through mixtures, from which you somehow emerge fulfilled. Painting is the process.

Some of the paintings in the “Shanghai Garden” exhibition at the Maior gallery were created in Shanghai and inspired by a romantic idea: to find a palette that can embody the emotions experienced and the energy the city transmits. At the same time, the idea of ​​the garden as a search for a lost paradise is also present in all the works and speaks to us of respect for nature, even more so after the tragedy in Valencia.

As Mario Satz tells us in his book “Small Paradises,” the classical Chinese garden was the first of all gardens devised by humans to delimit a specific area of ​​a hill or stream and consider it, as such, a place of manifestation of a beauty that must be cared for, respected, and cherished, but never deformed… The irregularity of the garden guaranteed that nothing and no one would be completely subject to any order other than that of the universe itself.

Juan Olivares

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