Artists Statement
I choose drawing because it's the most basic form of human expression.
Generally I work on paper with colored pencils and ink,leaving blank spaces that
compensate for the lines and spots made by the colored pencils.They exude
a passion for color and also for the frenetic spontaneity of children's drawings.
Pedro Vizcaino is and admirer of the lunatic drawings of madmen and of the
spontaneous drawings of children.These drawings want to open a gap or a
pahtway between figurative art and abstract art.They are drawings that reproduce
imaginary characters [as airplanes,cars,handguns,shoes]that convey to us in an
ironic,humoristic fashion a vision of the environment of society and history.
Colored pencils and ink are the skeleton,the structure of these drawings.
Vizcaino'art driven by ideas,bucks the socio-political notions that inform most
art and art criticism today.The principal theme in his art is the way in wich action
becomes part of an image as opposed to the more common reverse approach-using
an image to depict some kind of action.In is representation of action and its aural
spaces Vizcaino combines elements of sculpture,drawing,and painting and he freely
juxtaposes the frantic textures of a child's turgid crayon scribblings with images
that migth otherwhise evoke delicacy,eros,fligth.
Vizcaino captures the image at the instant in wich it belongs to all its possible
domains-conception,dream;the musing of the innocent,the denunciation of the
cognizant,sketch,polished art work,idea.Hence the deep reverberations of these
animalistic,mordant,absurd airplanes in our consciousness,they are the dive bombers
sent by childhood to eradicate illusions about action and identity,like two barrels of a
single gun,lock,fire knot methapor into masks.Without discarding their identity
as weapons,the images also become cellular phones,women's shoes,or masks.
The object becomes a forum of identities and there by absorbs the cognitive actions
of transformation and metaphor into the referential actions associated with the image
of weapons.
Pedro Vizcaino
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