Eduardo Arranz-Bravo: Recent Works
Matthew Liu Fine Arts is pleased to present its second gallery exhibition by internationally acclaimed Spanish artist Eduardo Arranz-Bravo. For over 50 years Arranz-Bravo has been famous for creating abstract paintings with a focus on the universal emotions of individuals living in contemporary world鈥攖heir pleasure, excitement, passion, fear, solitary moments and subconscious peculiarities. With vivid colors and simple forms, his works are distinguished by their emotional power, precision and purity.
Presenting Arranz-Bravo's newest body of work created between 2013 and 2017, the exhibition is primarily emphasized on his most recent works. The earliest painting in the show Zen (2013) depicts a human body lying against a cerulean blue background. Sinuous contours and organic shapes in black and white hovering between abstraction and poetic suggestions of torso, limbs and organs. The blurred blocks of various colors beneath the body contain units of human expressions, aiming toward the spiritual experience of Zen. The center pieces of this exhibition are Contrapunt [Counterpoint] series and Upon-up series, both are created in 2017. Composed around the axis in the center, these works suggest the basic emotions, feelings and processes in life. Counterpoint is a musical concept, referring to the vibrant and intense short notes that contrast with the rest of the music in the score. For Arranz-Bravo, art is a counterpoint for humanity, and it is through paintings he expresses thoughts, human impulses and mysteries. In Upon-ups, the artist applies multiple layers of paints to the canvas, leaving one colors rests on top of and blends in with another, and then adds spontaneous and playful lines and shapes. These somehow familiar and yet amorphous forms are essentially the artist鈥檚 introspection on paintings鈥� potential to distill human experience.
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Matthew Liu Fine Arts is pleased to present its second gallery exhibition by internationally acclaimed Spanish artist Eduardo Arranz-Bravo. For over 50 years Arranz-Bravo has been famous for creating abstract paintings with a focus on the universal emotions of individuals living in contemporary world鈥攖heir pleasure, excitement, passion, fear, solitary moments and subconscious peculiarities. With vivid colors and simple forms, his works are distinguished by their emotional power, precision and purity.
Presenting Arranz-Bravo's newest body of work created between 2013 and 2017, the exhibition is primarily emphasized on his most recent works. The earliest painting in the show Zen (2013) depicts a human body lying against a cerulean blue background. Sinuous contours and organic shapes in black and white hovering between abstraction and poetic suggestions of torso, limbs and organs. The blurred blocks of various colors beneath the body contain units of human expressions, aiming toward the spiritual experience of Zen. The center pieces of this exhibition are Contrapunt [Counterpoint] series and Upon-up series, both are created in 2017. Composed around the axis in the center, these works suggest the basic emotions, feelings and processes in life. Counterpoint is a musical concept, referring to the vibrant and intense short notes that contrast with the rest of the music in the score. For Arranz-Bravo, art is a counterpoint for humanity, and it is through paintings he expresses thoughts, human impulses and mysteries. In Upon-ups, the artist applies multiple layers of paints to the canvas, leaving one colors rests on top of and blends in with another, and then adds spontaneous and playful lines and shapes. These somehow familiar and yet amorphous forms are essentially the artist鈥檚 introspection on paintings鈥� potential to distill human experience.
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