Landscapes After the Battle

 

Sheila Rodríguez

Málaga, Spain

 

In the last years of my training I focused on the development of a pictorial language of expressionist inspiration to represent abandoned and destroyed places, which nourished my life story.

 

They are metaphorical images of a contemporary social situation that troubles me and conveys to the viewer uncertainty and existential emptiness.

 

This pictorial series, entitled "Landscapes after the battle", is based on photographs that I transfer to the canvas by reducing shades, always seeking a touch and light quality. The concept of destruction is also present during the artistic process. The image is built at every moment, layer upon layer, or stripping the paint off the canvas. This action makes parts of the image appear and disappear. This causes a diffused look in the viewers perspective, as if contemplating dreamed or remembered spaces.

 

As a result the viewer is able to discover an atmosphere that envelops everything, a combination of figuration and abstraction, light and dark, strength and weakness, real and unreal, chaos and order, where the opponents don’t oppose each other, but they are complementary.

Space for painting II, Serie: Landscapes after the battle
Acrylic on canvas

Sheila Rodríguez

Málaga, Spain

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Collection of the Málaga University. Spain.
Space for painting I, Serie: Landscapes after the battle
Acrylic on canvas

Sheila Rodríguez

Málaga, Spain

S/T, Series: Landscapes after the battle
Acrylic on canvas

Sheila Rodríguez

Málaga, Spain

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In this series of works I represent abandoned and destroyed places whom I live and I have nourished in my life path. They are metaphoric images of a contemporary social situation that worries me and convey to the viewer a sense of uncertainty and existential emptiness.

For the creation of these paintings I start from photographs of these places and then I transfer to the fabric through a slow and steady process, always I seeking a light quality. On the other hand, following these approaches, we can find some works that are completely abstract, where I work with the concept of destruction as artistic process to create an image that gives us the feeling that we are faced with a total demolition.

All this constitutes a series of works in which figuration and abstraction are mixing into each other in an atmosphere that envelops everything; a combination of light and darkness, strength and weakness, visible-invisible real and unreal, chaos and order, full and empty, where opposites are not opposed to each other, but complementary.

S/T, Serie: Landscapes after the battle
Acrylic on canvas

Sheila Rodríguez

Málaga, Spain

S/T, Serie: Landscapes after the battle
Acrilyc on canvas

Sheila Rodríguez

Málaga, Spain

S/T, Serie: Landscapes after the battle
Acrylic on canvas

Sheila Rodríguez

Málaga, Spain

More info


Space for painting I, Serie: Landscapes after the battle
Acrilyc on canvas

Sheila Rodríguez

Málaga, Spain

More info

In this series of works I represent abandoned and destroyed places whom I live and I have nourished in my life path. They are metaphoric images of a contemporary social situation that worries me and convey to the viewer a sense of uncertainty and existential emptiness.

For the creation of these paintings I start from photographs of these places and then I transfer to the fabric through a slow and steady process, always I seeking a light quality. On the other hand, following these approaches, we can find some works that are completely abstract, where I work with the concept of destruction as artistic process to create an image that gives us the feeling that we are faced with a total demolition.

All this constitutes a series of works in which figuration and abstraction are mixing into each other in an atmosphere that envelops everything; a combination of light and darkness, strength and weakness, visible-invisible real and unreal, chaos and order, full and empty, where opposites are not opposed to each other, but complementary.

About space and light, Serie: Landscapes after the battle
Acrylic on canvas

Sheila Rodríguez

Málaga, Spain