Exhibition at the Neilson Gallery (Grazalema, Cádiz), "lejos". Painting.

2006 spring

A figure dressed in white - overalls which are partly white, but mainly iridescent, green and earth toned - laborouriously climbs the hillside. It holds a large tube in its hands, wears thick-soled boots, a red rucksack on its back. Below and with each moment further below, is left a village of cramped and identical houses, protected by the company of loneliness and a suffocating sun. The man continues on his way up the steep slope. The ground, stony and dry, is dotted with scrubby vegetation which is reduced to scarce patches further up.
We could perhaps suppose that the figure in question is the artist and that the summit is his objective. Nothing would be further from the truth. The tiny plateau on the hilltop is only a starting point, a hillock from which the investigator of realities will meet with his true opponent.