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Triple espoir roig
1988
Albert Rafols-Casamada
Painting
150 x 150 cm
“I would like people to breathe in the color in my painting as I breathe in color when gazing at the sea”, Albert Ràfols-Casamada once wrote in his diary. After the omnipresent blue of the 1980s, ochre and fire dominated his works at the turn of the 1990s. Witness the dazzling roig (the Catalan word for “red”) in this canvas in which a spare, abstract trinity seems to vibrate like a mystic revelation incarnated in color. Also legible in this painting is the very down-to-earth sense of “hope” embodied at this time by post-movida Spain in the eyes of one of the founders of Barcelona’s Eina (Escola de Disseny i Art) art school, a former hotbed of anti-Franquist resistance.
Albert Rafols-Casamada
Spain
Born in 1923
Colour first! Poles apart from Tàpies or Saura - his contemporaries who attracted more media attention - and their sombre, tormented works, Albert Ràfols-Casamada's painting is not just luminous but radiant. Because, for this most Mediterranean of Spanish artists, the world is an ensemble of chromatic vibrations that have to be transcribed onto the canvas. Beyond the references to the French trilogy - Cézanne, Matisse, Braque - scattered throughout his works, the Catalan painter found a path somewhere between Rothko's mysticism and Mondrian's Constructivism amid an interplay of colours and their expressive force.
The sole objective that he sought in his twoflod career as painter and poet was to use a vocabulary that showed the essence of things.
Artwork of
Albert Rafols-Casamada
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