Description
Introducing Paisaje #13, a black soil and acrylic painting by Carlos Fernández, made with 80% black soil, 1% acrylic paint and 19% transparent gel acrylic.
Fernández’s farm in the mountains around Santa Ana is his main source of sustenance and artistic materials, allowing him to integrate natural elements such as soil, beeswax, and turmeric with acrylics. Fernández’s works between art and the environment as he layers fragments of his surroundings to create intricate textures and patterns. With a belief that “pigment is food,” Fernández integrates spices like turmeric and achiote directly onto his canvases.
For Fernández, art is a contextual practice akin to tending a garden. He carefully observes his environment and embarks on a series of exercises before translating his perceptions onto canvas, photographs, or even through performances.
Paisaje #13 depicts broad forms, as though you have taken a step back from the plants of and the canopy has opened up around you. Large pale leaves and stems in cool greys and whites emerge from the same dense black ground, giving the feeling of standing inside a forest at night, eyes adjusting to the forms in front of you. Look closely and small flashes of colour appear in the lower portion of the canvas — prismatic marks scattered across the dark ground that are easy to miss but change the painting when you find them.
This is a bold, dark black soil painting, but the black contains none of the harshness of paint. With 80% of the surface made from the dark soil of Carlos’s farm, the colour is organic and has a softness to it — a depth that comes from the earth rather than a tube.
Framing not included.
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