The painter Javier Cabo offers a plastic version of reality through a figurative art that he pushes to the edge of abstraction. A road he travels in order to experiment with space, relief and the geometry of artistic matter.
His artwork draws on the fresh air blown in by the movements of the early 20th century. In them he finds the elements he needs to think about and study the essential character of forms and structures. In that sense, he builds his work on Cubism, though a certain influence of the Futurist and Surrealist movements can also be felt.
To put his artworks together, Javier Cabo looks at motifs he takes from everyday life, suggested by reality and filtered through his imagination. They can be anything from what he finds in scenes of leisure at the beach, in tree-lined avenues or in a game of chess. Any subject that catches his eye and lets him practise a language based on lines, planes, forms and colours. Elements that relate to one another and with which he plays at taking space apart and building it again.
And so his figures appear, starting out from planes with a certain hieratic leaning and an imposing presence. A monumentality he reinforces with the volume he gets from sanding, from using palette knives and from the cuts he inflicts on his dynamic compositions.
And which he softens, in equal measure, with delicate transparencies in blues and whites that bring a suggestive light. A light with a fully Cubist approach, becoming form itself, and one that holds on to the particular mood of each moment. The painter also tries to create strong contrasts using, above all, greens, blues and ochres of heavily bodied pigment, which gives artistic matter greater expressiveness and density.
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Luis
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