Capturing light as the element that blurs the lines of the landscape, as a mixing and confusion of natural and built architectures. The constant attempt to master brightness with brushes in order to create that longed-for haze that erases the border between the gaze of the present and memory and freezes them. This is a first approach to that impossible thing conveyed by the canvases of Rafael Carrascal García. A freezing of time. A capturing of its non-existence. Whether in the swell of the sea, in the half-light of the forest or in the slender attempts of his buildings to keep on climbing.
With an imprecise but carefully considered line, and an atmosphere loaded with longing, Rafael Carrascal García places us among abundant clouded skies that fall with all their weight over the zigzagging course of running waters, bridges and lean trees. Those skies, then, heavy with melancholy, are what rule the scene, along with the constant device of water making its way through rural settings and urban ones.
His use of ochre, muted colours takes the viewer to the sunsets and sunrises the painter is after, like an occasional means of transport with no destination, only a departure time. Among the peculiarities of his style, what stands out is his command of the transition of contours, harmonising the different elements of the scene and playing, at the same time, with the real and the dreamlike.
He thus shows great versatility in his artwork, able to move towards the abstract in canvases such as Abstracción geométrica, towards the impressionist, as in Metrópolis, and even towards surrealism, as in the case of his canvas Tocando el cielo, while much of his landscape painting is guided by a realist eye, as in his painting Savia.
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