VIEWING ROOM "DRAWINGS"

"Drawings" Series

This series of drawings represents a cohesive and meticulous journey through the figurative. While the motifs are inspired by the same themes as the paintings, the drawing technique with pencil and charcoal allows for a more intimate and direct exploration of details by the hand on the surface.

One of the central pieces of this exploration is a life-size drawing of a female nude, executed with graphite on a polyester canvas.

The pencil achieves its darkest gradients, creating a profound three-dimensionality through a masterful exercise in chiaroscuro that evokes the drama of the Baroque.

This same search for intensity is manifested in a study on a wooden panel, which captures the face of a homeless person. Here, the drawing uses the depth of shadows and the weight of a gaze to create psychological drama. Their eyes question the viewer, making them a participant in the harsh and rough scene.

The theme of hands, a recurring motif in the works, is approached with particular sensitivity. Unlike the brushstroke of painting, the pencil allows for a greater level of detail and exquisite meticulousness which, along with the representation of the most subtle values of gray, make these drawings a display of perceptibility. Here we can appreciate the tenderness of elderly hands, deformed and marked by life, that emerge from the pure white of the paper, capturing the essence of the human form with great delicacy.

In the charcoal portraits, seeking the qualities that this material allows on a rough engraving paper, the stroke becomes more energetic and gestural, shifting the focus from hyper-realistic detail to the textural qualities of the support.

The entire body of work is a true laboratory, an effort to test different materials and their possibilities.

Even so, these works retain the essence of realism, balancing expression with precision.

–Javier Arizabalo