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Drawing gives shape to things, color to life. It is the divine breath of life. D. Diderot: Essais sur la peinture, 1765

With the Spanish artist DALMAU - who is now living in Brazil, the color is the sensual appeal of his painting. And because music is a medium that has the strongest impact on our senses, DALMAU paints as if a symphony orchestra plays jazz. On a keyboard of expressive colors, he covers the canvas with compositions that are composed of a dynamic coloratura - color and line coloration. From picture to picture we meet colorfully painted figures with faces in simplified outline drawing but without actual physiognomy. There are countless people who appear but immediately sink into their anonymity again. But they become a significant subject in DALMAUS works. Her body and gestures are shaped by the artist from a few hatchings and explosive colors. In doing so, he radically transcribes every imaginable variation in art history: from Rubens through Velรกzquez to Picasso and Matisse, the autodidact experiments with line, surface and a firework of colors. Striking is his reference to Diego Velรกzquez in relation to the omnipresent light over the color. In DALMAUS, the colorism surges between the individual forms to suggest the light. His pictures therefore give the impression of immense expanse and spatial depth as only Velazquez achieved in the past. DALMAUS' turn to the figurative is based on his intense interest in the theater. The figure stands here in its diversity as a model in the center of the action. In particular, DALMAU emphasizes the performative abilities of his protagonists: their flexibility, their ability to be modeled and their versatility. In this transformational process, the artist then intervenes himself in the complex drama of art and life. He works like a director in which he repeatedly uses his dazzling figures as dancers, circus performers or simply as performance artists in different spatial contexts. Here he continually rearranges her from different angles. In this creative process, images of exuberant power emerge, which, paired with wit and irony, create a surprising, even amazing feeling. This is precisely where DALMAU extends the spectrum of his art, as he rigorously breaks through the boundaries of art history in order to place his own creative ideas in a modern contemporary context. He also looks ironically and critically behind the surface of his picture stories. But it is precisely this part of his painting that makes the specific.

DALMAUS pictures dominated by figures in the intoxication of colors, appear highly enigmatic, mysterious and ambiguous in their existential structure, but always they are full of life and move happily and carefree through his imagery as if life is a unique "joie de vivre". Who would not like to participate?

Monika Wรถsthoff lic. Phil. Art historian

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