He will be the star of the opening day of the Festival of Images and Words. Daniel Tomasini is a very talented Uruguayan painter with an amazing international career and we feel honoured to have him with us.
This is his artistic declaration, where the artist explains the influences and motivations of his art:
My painting intends to be the pure expression of colour, since I believe in the possibility of arousing emotional feelings through colour. To accomplish this task, I developed a particular painting technique which aims to achieve the highest contrasts in colour, using the most varied pigments that I am able to find. I am speaking here of a painting concept – that is, an aesthetic idea – that comes exclusively from the observation of nature, even though the visual idea might be modified later according to my artistic intuition.
Canadian woods in autumn have inspired me. On the other hand, thanks to many years of personal research in painting, as well as to the influence of the major Canadian artist Jean-Paul Riopelle, I was able to settle an experimental ground which I can now enhance in accordance with my personal mood. As a consequence, and as a result of my continuous reflection regarding Art, including my long lasting experience as an art teacher, the half-abstract style I reached to is supported by the heavy spatula pasted colour placed in a very intuitive way, just being guided by colour sensation.
This experience started during my first trip to Canada, in 2006, when I began sketching some beautiful parks surrounding Montreal. Back in Montevideo, I was able to work more intensely and give way to fantasy. I could integrate animals, moonlight scenes, reflections on the turquoise waters of the Saint Lawrence River, and many other memories jostling through my mind while painting.
Those earlier sketches showed the scenery that nature displayed before my eyes, a world of an extraordinary play of colours that definitely caught me and from then on this play began to direct my plastic interest. It is no so common that a natural subject appears artificial to us due to a sense of its pure beauty. However, the Canadian landscape offers, in the brief autumn period, a fascinating palette in a single sight. Pairs of contrasting colours and a very wide range of hues of red-greens, orange-ochre, black-white, different greenish greys, purples, etc., backed with the pure cobalt blue of the sky, are part of this symphony. Colour, then, is literally exploding, conveying elegance as well as subtlety, energy and magnificence.
Throughout my painting I would also like to lead the spectators´ attention to the natural world, so as to appraise it and recognize a true balance that should not be broken on behalf of human development.I must say that my great admiration for the ancient Canadian maples involves a feeling of gratitude which, at the same time, contains an aesthetic reward. Many other natural places in the world speak to us in a millenary idiom from woods, mountains, rivers and jungles, nowadays threatened in various ways. Therefore, I am grateful to nature.
Art is a man-heart creation; it is born from emotion and sensibility. It is, furthermore, a powerful tool towards the understanding of human order, be it social or natural. I also believe that we are dealing with a special kind of intelligent dialogue particularly designed to be shared with people all over the world.
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