Spanish Colour 1985-2020

Hardback
27 × 25.6 cm
168 pages
150 images
English

A short extract from Spanish Colour 1985–2020

“Perhaps the two main factors that allowed me to definitely cross over to colour, in 1985, were the realization that I could find guidance in the great tradition of Spanish painting, and the decision to have the entire image in focus.

The latter forced me to use a shorter focal length (28mm) than I normally used and made it necessary to widen the field of vision on which I was working. I no longer reacted to a situation that was in front of me, but rather to the visual rhythms of a situation in which I was immersed.

So easy, and yet so complicated.

I had been working for 17 years in black and white when I started working exclusively in colour. I was then 39 years old. Suddenly I felt very comfortable, liberated, and euphoric. The colours dazzled and overwhelmed me; they reacted with each other, everything vibrated, and I felt enveloped by colour and its possibilities.

The intensity of this first experience progressively declined, but I regained the enthusiasm and dedication that I had almost lost after so many years of frustration.”

Publisher: Plague Press