"Beauty will save the world?". The dramatic question sometimes becomes a certainty before Dostoevsky's art. Because there is a kind of beauty that is not an end in itself, but turns his gaze towards the infinite. It 's a beauty that is rooted in the vocation, and dress the poetic sensibility of an artist, much to communicate God himself, absolute beauty, thanks to a work of art.
And if the artist in question is young, it moves and enchants even more. These are their feelings of those who are fortunate enough Francisco Garcia Astiaso approach.
Twenty-seven years, the fifth of seven children, beautiful, deep and incredibly talented and artistic sensibility.
As a child, has clearly shown his skills in drawing and painting, and his parents, Italian mother and English father, the itinerant catechists in the Neocatechumenal, have supported and sometimes encouraged the art of the child, enough to allow him to attend the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.
The results are already evident despite his young age. Astiaso can boast as many as 14 exhibitions to his credit, two major investments to artistic events in Italy, where his works, sometimes thematic, sometimes in mixed technique and subject, have been shown successfully.
His life has been seasoned by travel, as a child, to follow mom and dad on the move during the missions of evangelization, and great to know the world, and especially to work with people who have made a strong impression in His artistic training: Kiko Arguello, English painter and sculptor, author of numerous iconographic and founder of the Neocatechumenal. There are many churches in Italy, and even a cathedral in Madrid, whose icons were painted, among others, by Francis Astiaso Garcia.
His vast artistic spaces in the testing of each medium: charcoal, photography, sculpture in bronze and wax. Works sometimes raw and sharp, sometimes subtle, veiled, soft, almost transparent, unreal, evocative, full of meaning, sometimes mysterious, steeped in spirituality.
face of this young man so full of talented, well seasoned and past travel experiences, in depth relationships with others, the first question that comes to mind is:
"But true artist, to do something good, must necessarily believe in God? "
"I believe in God, and I think that her beauty is made perfect in the art. Art is longing for the sky and a desire for fulfillment ... Art means "to reveal God in all things." But I see the blatant contradiction in some of those artists, though the search for God through their work, then he denies the existence rationally. But if art is genuine, God manifests himself anyway. The difference, if any, will reside in the fact that the artist, instead of calling his work " Created ," was called "Mother Nature . I must say that the beauty of creation I helped to overcome moments of crisis, I think of atheism in the past. For example, consider the beauty of a leaf, see every detail in its perfection, its features, see different actors in the creation of similar signs, recurrent, almost a signature of God , really helped me to understand that such a beauty and perfection could not be born by chance. My desire is to communicate God certainly, but not only in the iconography. love deepen the poetic point of view of a work, not just the aesthetic. My painting seeks to build bridges between the canons of the eternal beauty and the most daring experiments and operations of the painting of our time. The end is the contemporary synthesis of modernity and tradition. Modigliani said: "modernity is a great mystery, coupled with what was pregnant with what will be."
- You work with many different styles. Which is what satisfies you most?
"I love every style of those who work, provided that arises from within, from a true inspiration. There were moments of contradiction, in which I lived as a waste executive jobs, where I could not fully express myself, so working with other people I had just run work dictated by others. But over time I realized that even that may be an opportunity to experience a period of rest, a break, even if forced. He is also a way to understand that my art is not born of narcissism, vanity, but it's a real call, a sort of synthesis combining the artistic vocation where the poetic sensibility, I can really serve God through my talents, my natural gifts, so do not do "for me", but "through me".
- Let's talk about abstract art: if you do not understand it, it seems almost a random doodle. You made several abstract works. Can you explain what you see inside, and what the abstract for you?
"First you need to untie the idea spread that is unconnected with reality. The real abstraction is more representative of the kaleidoscopic nature of what can be realism. We have to imagine so much closer to the object to represent it in the smallest details, so as to confuse the image until it becomes unrecognizable, and that is abstract, almost to get inside. Here, that's where I find the same aesthetic language that once was in the paint the living model. True art can do wonderful things ... just think that even the ugliest thing normally be seen, represented by a real artist can become a work of art. "
- When you sit down to the classic white canvas, you already know what you're getting? Or the work was born as?
"Sometimes I have an initial idea, but most times I let myself go. Sometimes I also not happy with something, spend angry over a cloth and see the spark in the destruction of something that takes me, and start from there, only to see the beautiful work at the end. As one said English "Caminante, no hay stack, if hare fireplace to go" (Traveler, there is a road, going the way you make it). "
Here is a tiny part of the immense inner world of an artist ... it's nice to think that most of them have an experience so intense, so as to be totally immersed in what they do, and that the beauty express themselves through their art builds us, leads us to think of eternity, makes us better.
To contact the artist, you can visit his Facebook profile. Soon it will even his presence on the web personal website.
Sabrina Pietrangeli Paluzzi
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