La buena vida / The good life

Pausa

By Harold Lopez Muñoz

Harold López (*1977, Havana) approaches the landscape for the first time. In the Pause series, the human being is not exactly the center of the representation. But it is there, it is always there, even if it is not seen. Man is the one who sees (looks, appreciates, enjoys) those landscapes that the artist recreates. And we are not talking precisely about the viewer, the one who stands in front of a painting in a gallery or in front of a computer. We are talking about characters within the painting, creatures that the painter sometimes shows and other times glimpses, suggests, hides … There is no notion of beauty if there are no witnesses. The same happens with the peace, the calm, the peacefulness of a place. This is why Harold understands these landscapes as an extension of the human being. They are not simple scenery: the landscape can be the symbol of emotion. Or its concretion: how many times have we felt part of an environment? As if it welcomed us, integrated us, impregnated us. A few brushstrokes and a few bright colors are enough for Harold López to create complex frameworks, full of meanings. There is a density that has nothing to do with profusion or variegation. This is an artist of essences, but also of intensities. In his paintings re are always implicit presences. Something that is there, but does not materialize. The ineffable. Some would say: poetry.