Astolfo Funes.

Astolfo Funes 2012

Acrílico S/Tela

140 x 125

Miami- Florida

Detalle:  Firma del autor.

Astolfo Funes 2012
Acrílico S/tela
140 x  125 cm
Miami Florida

Detalle. Firma del autor.

Astolfo Funes 2013

Astolfo Funes 2013

Astolfo Funes 2013

Astolfo Funes 2013

Taller Miami

Astolfo Funes 2014

120 x 110 cm

Acrílico s/tela

120 x 110

Acrílico S/ tela 

120 x 110

WOMEN

Astolfo Funes, Women Astolfo Funes's theme is "women." But in reality, the "feminine" as an expression of a universe that belongs to man, which he loves. That "female-human-landscape" comes to him, humble, provocative and provocative, challenging, as it has always been. Here it is, in every corner, waiting to devour your broad brush of bright paradise marble slabs without weak beauties. Funes women are concept and form, are issues that arise in special underground blaze of colors enclosed in large black lines. The face in the foreground of one of his current series, accuses changes from baseline of the first decade. Face that emerges from the bottom of the fabric to get into the viewer's personal life, saying you are like me, you're like me, while the individualist sentiment manifests exaggerated in his own connections with feelings and emotions. [Photo] S.T. 2009 Mixed media / canvas 145 x 118 cm It is difficult to locate the painting waterproof Funes in a niche, even in relation to Venezuelan art. What if it is necessary to emphasize is its expressive qualities in terms of image distortion, which incidentally is located in the artistic production of other periods. For example the Fayum portraits, African sculpture, German Expressionism, the Fauves and more contemporary neo-figuration of Francis Bacon, the new wild, up to Latin America with Jose Luis Cuevas and Jacobo Borges, the most immediate national reference. But Funes, no doubt, is about himself, his interest in the environment, being then his creative eye, that of an observer of human nature when playing with the uncertainty of the image itself, asking whether this belongs to a mental or, conversely, a physical representation of the universe around him. In this sense, the artist, in the formal, expressive takes several poles. On the one hand, the image whooping and surrounding objects, on the other, the ferocity of color that helps to add even more visual tension to the dynamic footprint delivers the graffiti-drawing, leaving marks that organize the expressive speech area the work, whether done on canvas or paper, and that places the figurative form in a symbolic space of the human landscape. Astolfo Funes painting has always been highly intellectual, but despite that it can recognize characters and situations, often confused with high sordid scenes, and those perceived as "portraits" of feelings and inner worlds. Theirs is a work where the content is amalgamated with the mainland, ie defines the formal and vice versa. Funes could not express his subject without a highly expressionist art in drawing and color. From the point of view of the plastic structure, poses an aesthetic visual atmospheres conflicting color line, abstract figurative form, spatial configuration moving with static color planes in concrete partnerships, formal and conceptual. To achieve this structure, it takes complex technical procedures covering the design, graphics, stroke gestures, the straight line and curve bypasses to set up a concrete image in its spatial figurative painting from spots, segments, and color bias important figure-ground relationship. [Photo] Mosaic 2009 Mixed media / canvas 136 x 190 cm The painting process has led Funes homogeneous continuity since its inception. At that time was marked by a defining color imprint of the dominant figurative elements on the pictorial surface, saturated modulations and values. During the creative process has changed from plastic situations dominated by the fear of emptiness, to the purification of the formal elements, without leaving the characteristic theme of his work. In the last round, work the image from the white background of the medium, precisely because of a particular target has the same value of color intensity than the red, green or blue. Fascinated by these images, aggressive and individuals, the viewer will look like in the mirror, his own. You may find a more intellectual than physical, based on the premise that the paint Funes, as stated at the beginning, is highly intellectual. Astolfo Funes looks and makes women look at those figures, portraits talking, and in the process gives them a great tenderness. Paradoxically, his mouth twisted, badly painted, legs crossed, arms falling listlessly, the large eyes of deep blackness, do not express universes frayed. Quite the contrary. Is the space of tenderness, old woman perfume, dazzling in the shadows and a sweet glow. Possibly this is the essence of the real and imaginary of contemporary man.

Fuente:  A S T O L F O F U N E S by K O N T E M P O A R T