is the title of this exhibition within the latest works developed in the project “Neoclima”, paintings related to the inclement weather where plastic resources are given appointment to emulate skies and polluted seas, cyclogenesis, thaws, ocean currents and expansions, and other effects of the current climate translated into an abstract language. The objective of these paintings of mental character is to interpret the sensations not only of the landscape and nature but also of the atmosphere that surrounds them. is the title of this exhibition within the latest works developed in the project “Neoclima”, paintings related to the inclement weather where plastic resources are given appointment to emulate skies and polluted seas, cyclogenesis, thaws, ocean currents and expansions, and other effects of the current climate translated into an abstract language. The objective of these paintings of mental character is to interpret the sensations not only of the landscape and nature but also of the atmosphere that surrounds them.

In the series “Plastic Oceans” mentioned above is where the process has special relevance by using a collage in the form of a “pictorial skin” with which I am finalizing the work. This plastic epidermis is the result of the spontaneous process that arises from the accumulation and sedimentation of the paint, which I then collect and integrate into the work.  In reality, it is an analysis or appreciation of the pollution where a multitude of plastic remains occupy our seas degrading the waters, but at the same time generating new compositions in a landscape of great poetic charge; chromatic stains of pollution that float forming new islands that break and expand invading nature waiting for a new regeneration.

History tells us that other admired romantic painters have left evidence in their works of the meteorological phenomena of the time: Caspar David Friedrich and his work “Walker on a sea of clouds” where he expresses a cloudy phenomenon and the feeling of being on the edge of the immensity or William Turner in his sunsets contaminated by the volcanic particles of the moment.  Already in 100,000 B.C., the oldest known cave paintings in the caves of Kwuzulu in South Africa, a rain dance is represented, showing the existence, at that time, of droughts in that part of the world. In short, the struggle of nature continues in its eagerness to renew or transform itself in the face of a new climate that inspires and demands a new painted reality.

To quote Walt Wittman:

We are what the atmosphere is,
transparent,hospitable,
permeable,impermeable.                                                                                                                    We are snow, rain, cold, darkness,
we are what the planet engenders and protects.  

Fernando Palacios