Alfaro 1 (2018) Painting by Alfaro

The abstract paintings of Alfaro are, precisely, those pictorial thoughts where such a language might just be possible. Each one of his canvases creates a pictorial distance with respect to the “real” color of the referent in nature he is painting, whether one is merely looking at the landscape or through a memory. But more important than whether or not we see or recognize a landscape, his abstract paintings possess neither background nor figure. It confronts us with a limit of contamination among each one of these categories, and, as the Lacanian philosopher Slavoj Zizek says of the paintings of Rothko (which contained a sort of osmosis between the background and the figure in the painting), it is the passing of reality into the real.The paintings of Jonatan Alfaro are made out of sighs and out of whispers. And his adventure is that of the abstract.Of abstraction, of its birth, much has been said. The term is ambiguous and has come to mean non-objective, informal art, concrete art, non-figurative art. But its drama lies in that it does not follow the legitimacy so foundational to traditional art, that is, the representation of nature and sensitive objects or the illusionist expression of it, of them.

• Nationality: COSTA RICA
• Date of birth : unknown date
• Artistic domains: Represented by a Gallery,
• Groups: Contemporary Costa Rican Artists Artists presented by a gallery