Driven by the ocean breezes of dusk he tried to decipher the sounds of the waves breaking against the rocks. It’s been a while since he discovered his penchant for plastic! How many nights will this young man have galloped the solitudes of the Matancero Malecon to discover the true essence of his art?
And finally, after so many full moons, high and low tides, the whisper of the depths of the bay caressing his senses, he discovered that he must assume painting as an escape.
Sometimes it happens that the artistic manifestations come together to generate new proposals. Nothing is more encouraging for lovers of creation than witnessing the birth of a work of art, product of the constant flirtations between each of the expressions of culture.
Such is the case of the sample From Socorro, a selection of paintings that come to the interpretations of the artist Adrián Socorro on the text Nobody, an anthology of the Cuban writer Maria Elena Blanco, settled between Vienna and Chile, title born under the seal of the multi-award Matanzas Editions.
“I personally know the author of the book about which I did the illustrations and once I read it I found a poem quite eloquent and interesting, very beautiful, without fear of the word distorted many times by the analysis that provokes contemporary art.
“When I acceded to his work I was drawn to create drawings with no pretensions greater than to capture the effluvia of his poetry. I like to illustrate, I have done it on other occasions because somehow it forces me to read and that’s what the intention is about. “
In the enjoyment of those moments in which the pencil comes to life on the blank paper and images appear as in bursts, the young artist usually reflects beings who resemble him; Finding or printing points of coincidence to the strokes with his own life becomes the most authentic exercise of pleasure for him: he assumes the challenge of being creator and creation at the same time.
So the female face takes on a variety of forms in this exhibition that has toured several exhibition halls of Matanzas province, all created from the seemingly simple strokes that are perpetuated from the technique of the pen.
“I use the pen to illustrate why these drawings can later pass through an editorial process and this technique at the time of printing loses less nuances than the watercolor, it is richer from the options it provides in that sense.
“I also consider it a very disciplined technique, which demands a lot from the one who performs it because of the level of detail, the rigor and the patience that it entails. I spend a lot of time painting, I work a lot with the spatula, the thick brushstrokes and the pen brings me to this process of sitting, studying and practicing a lot. “
On the part of Socorro manages to capture the nuances, feelings and passions that are born from the expressiveness of the feminine face. Emanations of extreme simplicity that the illiterate artist Adrián Socorro was able to illustrate in a kind of homage to women and literature.
“This is, besides a versatile artist who can move through very different techniques and formats, one of the most restless creators I know in the convulsive panorama of the visual arts of today. His poetic perception of the environment seems always open, ready to undertake new challenges and absorptions, “said Alfredo Zaldívar, director of the Matancera publishing house.
After the silence in which his career was submerged by other responsibilities within the culture, he reinvents the ways; Now with more impetus returns to that world of colorful and infinite words trapped in the canvas.
Original text by on July 25th, 2017
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