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THE ART OF ROBERTO RODRIGUEZ

By Paola Diaz

Member of the Circle of Psychoanalysis of the Caribbean Seaboard
 

Contemplating the obra of Roberto Rodriguez is like facing a work abundant in surprises, fun, mystery, at the same time rigorous in the execution of each element and detail that we see in it. From his first drawing, and water colors up to his latest oils, years of work have elapsed without pause, in the investigation of techniques materials and points of view, time without measure in the awakening  of himself and in subjects, and elements that way cross or be part of it. The body, the horse, the city, diverse objects of his time and of the past at the same time.Africa, its fauna, liquid sacred chance, textures, pain, mirror, weather, eroticism, death and spaces.

Elements taken from that which we remember in flaming reality and that represent very faithfully, but ones chosen, and disposed by the artist, they become a means for saying, apart from its conventional definition: a means of expressing more than exterior reality, his individual way of perceiving it, of leaving it, thus remember the affirmation of Degas. “ The picture is not the form but rather as we see the form.”

Thus, besides his excellently executed technique each obra captures a fragment of the vital experience of the artist, converting itself into the materialization of the intangible, his perception in almost indescribable state that he himself barely achieves expression in words such as: the sensation of summering  in something liquid. Perception molded by his history, his fears, his secret, his worries- a memory – a dream a thought, an emotion, a desire. This could mean, thru the plastic that Rodriguez presents to us open the fan of possibilities that reality contains or that escapes it and that the attention of a real artist reveals. It creates spaces that vibrate with presence where we find exotic condensation and displacements and an enchanting and careful management of liquid, live, perspective, color and form. Certain metamorphoses that have had an impact on the canvas, the paper, the bronze, the cardboard and the wood, captured impassibly in the ever new never ending river that crosses the artist and that is the same river of living images that inevitably disquiet and delight.

Roberto Rodriquez art is the expression of the capacity to feel and react before existence, to ask, to explore, to dream, to believe, to wonder, and improve on what we all count but which very few occasion blossom so appreciably in the mind, the heart and the obra of a human being –invaluable achievement of culture and the mysterious  game of life.

We are participants in art as a pleasure and an effort full of responsibility animated by the awakening of the understanding of an image and its evocative power. Art as an expression of a desire, a road of patience in the discovery of answers before universal particular interrogation  expression of the human condition in all its complexity.

-Paola Diaz