Antonio Pérez Bornot: the aesthetics of beauty

Bornot's work has a strongly decorative streak, made real through devices that generate a pleasurable visual content. Aiming, with every move, for a captivating expression.

Antonio Pérez Bornot (Santiago de Cuba, 1964) finds the forms to produce that beauty in nature and in women. In the colourful, exotic vegetation of Cuban landscapes and in the tempting silhouettes of elegant models. Schematic female figures radiating a striking sensuality born of the sway of the planes and angles that project them. And which, when it suits him, the painter makes emerge from suggestive patches tinted with flowers.

To achieve this aesthetic he draws on drawing, with a very expressive and precise line. Surprising us with distorted lines, though easily identifiable ones, inside spaces with no perspective, which leave behind an appealing, spontaneous harmony.

Bornot achieves this visual melody through the way he arranges light, creating an intense, at times uniform, atmosphere of light. A balance further strengthened by the contrast between cool and warm colours. With which he reaches an even greater intensity by using a rich chromatic range of highly saturated colours. Among them red stands out as a particular reference in his work, along with the detail of the hat as a whim.

For more than two decades he has devoted himself professionally to painting, developing a style of his own. And, guided by a self-taught training, he has worked with creative freedom, allowing himself to experiment with disparate techniques, supports and influences in the service of his artistic aim.

Such as the decorative taste of Gustav Klimt or the light effects of Impressionism, practising the pointillist brushwork of Georges Seurat. And more still, revealing on his canvases the compositional elements and the chromatic shades most characteristic of Pablo Picasso.

Antonio Pérez Bornot's work has been recognised both nationally and internationally. His creations are part of private collections in Spain, Nicaragua, Mexico and the United States.

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