Colorful cubism Efrain Vidal
The bright colors as a feature for an artist who offers a new interpretation on the decomposition of the figurative
The newspaper disassembled and reassembled. Of paper boats in a sink. A cat thoughtfully. A mad magician. An autumn red and blue. From a distance it seems so many stained glass windows broken and dumped in the most unusual combinations. Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Villon and Georges Braque are reference points that can be seen clearly in the works of Efrain Vidal, for the multitude of visual angles of the object represented for the schematization of shapes and angular contours. However, this Peruvian painter, an Italian citizen and English by adoption, a breakdown of proposed new professional figures and polychrome. His artistic career began at the Faculty of Arts at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, continues a personal quest that leads to a new style. In addition to home, Vidal has exhibited in Italy, Venezuela, Brazil, United States, Switzerland and Great Britain. I have asked some questions about the genesis of his work.
The reference to a few names in your current Cubist art is quite explicit, but yours is a new reworking it comes to bright colors, different from those of Picasso or Duchamp.
Yes, you’re right, if I talk about my painting I have to start their own colors. When I began to study art, my teachers were saying that my colors were my strong point. I really do not know why they are so bright and sunny, but I assume it is something close to my home and my training. I think there is a strong emotional charge in my colors and this is the reason that drives me to paint, painting for me is a tool for communicating and the colors are the words I use.
Divide the beginning or the end result comes across more steps?
Almost always paint on impulse, so instinctive: I do not think so, I simply take a blank canvas and start drawing with the brush. When the characters appear, comes the hard part: thinking that the composition and choose colors. Can I also add that, curiously, once the picture is finished, I realize I have painted situations and events that live in that period. Other times I prepare sketches, but almost never take them out, not to stiffen the story or theme of the painting.
Your next exhibitions.
The next show will probably be the one in Settimo Torinese, before the end of the year.
Exhibitions are also planned in London and Paris.
Elena Ovecina for Artitude