Frankie Soldevila
traducción por Nilma Pereira 2002
José Armando Sanabria Rodríguez
Born in Lajas, Puerto Rico . Lives in Lajas and work as instructor of art in the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico in Ponce, in addiction to in the Fine Art Department in the Inter American University of Puerto Rico in San Germán Campus.
Sanabria works with expressive strokes characteristic of spontaneous and free process. The precision of his line or blotch in circular form, bares in an unaltered way the passion and state of emotion during the creative process.
His artist prop oral tries to reinterpret provincial paintings; bringing them to a more contemporaneous medium. From there his red, orange, igneous and black hues.
He uses mixed media as a form of expression. The basis of work is the iguana; in a macro vision, to represent the theme of loss.
These “macro graphics” inspired in provincial painting, although in a more “au courant” connotation; invite the spectator to examine them; for Sanabria fully penetrates in an abstraction filled with expressive gestures very personal and contemporary. These “provincial macro graphics”, as he calls them, are a metaphor of the thoughts and conflicts caused by a feeling of loss that host themselves in the wall of the “menotécnia”.
diciembre 2002Giving emphasis to the cycle of live - to a continuous coming and going again and again. He uses contemporary mediums as a symbiosis of evaluative process of adaptation of humans as a thinking and enlightened being.
Sanabria prefers mixed media for it allows him to express with more strength the conceptual character to integrate this evaluative cycle in which the planet has persisted and men has adapted and gotten use to change without abandoning its origin.
In the series of “Menotécnia”, Sanabria bares his soul in an adequate form and demonstrates great plastic and conceptual maturity, opening for himself a path in then international art world without abdicating his tropical roots… that warmth of Puerto Rico that distinguishes the Caribbean.[1]
[1] ÿ ARTIST AWARD - WORLD BEST 100 CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS - THE MASTERS OF TODAY- ART BOOK-2003- STOCKHOLM-SWEDEN / VENICE – ITALY. Pages 122-123.
