Art
In "Corazón,
Light and Cloth"
Baruc exhibits his work with light and shadow, symbolized in the visual metaphor of the crystal chandelier and the well that forms the central space, around which the shadow paintings, which are in fact paintings of light, are exhibited.
The exhibition shows the result of the "shadow painting" method created by the artist: objects cast shadows, and Baruc immerses himself in the shadows to generate a creative process by which light emerges from the shadow, color from the light, and form from all this.
The artist intervenes in the space of the Pati de Sa Lluna to recover the narrative tradition of what was a convent cloister (as the remains of the grisaille still show), and the creative vitality that propelled the space as Pati de Sa Lluna in the seventies, when it was inhabited by artists and artisans.
Shadow Paintings is an exhibition by Baruc Corazón Brabo showing the artistic work with which he has been engaged in recent years. It opened at the O_Lumen gallery in Madrid in February 2024, generating a series of proposals around art and consciousness during the week of ARCO Madrid, and will be presented at the Convent de Sant Diego, in Menorca, in June 2024.
In these paintings the artist submits himself to a process that eliminates any mental intermediation. His unique technique involves the projection of shadows on the canvas, surrendering himself to the unknown without any preconceived ideas, guided only by instinct in the search for light and color.
"Each painting is a complete process in itself, of which I am the first spectator. Each result is a surprise in which shapes and suggestions manifest themselves seemingly out of nowhere."
The exhibition takes visitors through the artist's personal evolution, from his earliest paintings, where he used the shades of an old crystal chandelier belonging to one of his grandmothers. What began as experiments has become an artistic journey where the paintings test the artist himself, teaching him the mysteries of the manifested and the manifestation. This honest and dazzling search for the essence of artistic manifestation itself requires an unusual space in contemporary art: the church.
