Blue Thunder – Faustino Ruiz de la Peña

In this period, influenced by Twombly’s painting, the artist continued the studies of the subject in a practice dominated by geometries and abstractions of marked neutral backgrounds and expressive strokes. Gradually, lonely characters began to emerge, in a clear statement of the taste for anatomy, represented with sinuous postures and pronounced foreshortenings. These years allowed the artist to embark on a game between drawing and matter where figuration was imposed by its own weight. Obtaining several regional awards gave the necessary impetus for the artist to demonstrate an unquestionable plastic identity. His works contain a memory, that he himself transforms, making everything he sees and lives his own. A photographic painting that captures moments, details and moments that freeze and remain inert in a reality that continues the viewer. In the process, the narrative transcends the visible to the hidden in the form of desert or snowy landscapes, uninhabited houses and creatures that make their way into the snapshots. Static scenes, contained atmospheres and color ranges of dark tones, are worked with repeated glazes and spots that erase and replace. His attraction to the distance separates him consciously from the opaque contours, the details of scenes and the contrasts of lights and shadows. Faustino Ruíz de la Peña creates worlds that go from the darkness of the Spanish baroque to the American thriller cinema.