Luis Yeshurun.
about.
The meeting with the new, the ability to say “I don’t know”, to ask questions, get a
different impression from the other, the will to try more and more, to pay the price for learning,
wonder and uncertainty, all of which characterize the encounter between the imaginary
characters described in the paintings and a new world that I am trying to create.
A world which is not known but also recognized, remembered, daily, and that puts me
in front of myself and in front of others. Every human being has something to say
to the world, to other people, just one thing. We like to think that each
of us are filled with messages trying all the time to transfer to the world.
But in the end is only one thing. That’s is what I’m trying to say, the something
very specific, very mine. My work is a search for the appropriate forms to say it.
The paintings are parts of a story, never the whole picture.
They are a combination of several stories that take place simultaneously: My Personal story,
the story of the characters (that I paint or draw), the story of the surface over which I paint
(wood, maps, books, cardboard boxes), the written story, and of course the viewer’s personal story.
At the encounter between all the stories takes place the work of art.
Lord Byron said: “Art is the life we image”.
But not just me imagining them, even the viewer, that takes the work to
elsewhere, to his space, to a personal story. The attempt is to find the path
that will allow me to reach always the other’s space, to create a new
story that everyone does with himself. Someone said about the works
“gentle on the hard platform,” I like the quote, because it symbolizes for
me more than looking directly at the paintings.
This statement reflects the relation with life. Memory and reality are built
in various levels, arises at each other, without order, without hierarchy, without discipline.
Maybe like in the paintings. The reading of the levels is different for everyone,
and the resulting image is ultimately a personal statement. I am happy about the
possibility to reach people, to touch them inside, talk to them through paintings,
give them something to think about, to adjust myself, to search for the answers, to tell a story.
This happiness, or the search for it motivates my work.
I want to keep looking, of course, there is no other option.
