1980-1989

In 1980 I went back to painting.

I had been in Paris five years by now. I completed a series of large paintings based on Goya and Velázquez. In 1968 in Rome I had already spent a year copying (from photographs) these two masters, making drawings and wax sculptures. These new Paris variations of Goya and Velazquez were a sort of personal/impersonal artistic re-anchoring.

From this time on, until the end of the eighties, my paintings were intense, violent and colorful, navigating between the edges of realism and abstraction. Landscape remained a definite leitmotif. The images were accessible in terms of recognition, and they were clearly also about visual grammar.

“Painter’s Memory” 1989 125x76cm acrylic on board with objects
“Voyage” 1989 192x205cm acrylic on canvas
“Train” 1986 200x200cm acrylic on canvas private collection
“The Encantation – Based on Goya” 1984 200x200cm Ludwig Collection
“Splendor and Misery” 1988 205x190cm acrylic on canvas BNP Collection
“Silencio” 1989-90 205x190cm acrylic on canvas
“Primavera” 1989-90 200x200cm acrylic on canvas private collection
“Pollensa Cloister” 1989 125x76cm acrylic on board with objects
“Playa Aucanada” 1983 200x200cm acrylic on canvas
“Patin” 1987 198x200cm acrylic on canvas
“Patin” 1986 198x200cm acrylic on canvas private collection
“NYC Memory 2” 1989 125x76cm acrylic on board with objects
“NYC Memory” 1989 125x76cm acrylic on board with objects
“Mountain” 1982 156x198cm acrylic on canvas private collection
“Mountain” 1981 157x198cm pencil and acrylic on canvas private collection
“Mountain” 1981 156x198cm pencil and acrylic on canvas private collection
“Louvre Coiffure” 1985 200x200cm acrylic on canvas Peter Stuyvesant Collection
“Landscape (Red Slash)” 1989-90 205x190cm acrylic on canvas private collection
“Landscape (Pink)” 1989-90 205x190cm acrylic on canvas private collection
“Indios Based on Velazquez’s The Forge of Vulcan” 1983-4 208x193cm acrylic on canvas
“Horse Under Hail” 1989-90 205x190cm acrylic on canvas private collection
“Gift Carrier” 1988 192x195cm acrylic on canvas
“Foto-Labo” 1983-4 200x200cm acrylic on canvas private collection
“Escape” 1983-4 200x200cm acrylic on canvas private collection
“Dogs” 1985 200x200cm acrylic on canvas private collection
“Disasters-Indian Flood” 1984 192x208cm acrylic on canvas private collection
“Chess Play” 1986 198x200cm acrylic on canvas private collection
“Bird” 1983-4 200x200cm acrylic on canvas private collection
“Bird” 1983-4 198x200cm acrylic on canvas private collection
“Bird” 1983 154x215cm acrylic on canvas private collection
“Artist and Model” 1982 205x192cm acrylic on canvas private collection
“Alcudia” 1985 194x209cm acrylic on canvas Fondation Cartier Collection