Painting? Well, my understanding of painting is …

Whenever questioned, and that happens a lot, what paint means from (my) perspective as a visual artist, I always give the same answer: passion, huge passion.

If I think about painting both as a painter and as a connoisseur, I would say that it is a complex movement that involves an unfolding – exposing oneself to an external, thinking, changeable world – and a withdrawing – in other words, submerging oneself in an internal, sensitive, infinite world. At different levels, for the artist and the connoisseur painting leads the actor to learn to see, to look, to observe, both internally and externally, and to show (or perceive), with the help of color, a way of feeling, and living life. Painting is always a riddle to be solved. This impression is confirmed by the comments that my paintings evoke: “…inhabited by a certain mystery…”, “…by magical aspects of uncertain explanation…”. Each blank canvas invites me to color it, to enter into conversation… with other images, with other gestures. Both as an artist and as a connoisseur, I always look for an uneasiness, an arrhythmia, a wound in the work, a trace of intimacy that is certainly not alien to me and that perhaps corresponds to the way I understand my artistic task: painting inwards.

Painting is time, it’s a journey, and because I’ve learned that life is wind, I always try to make my painting say something to the soul.

Juan Nordlinger, Magazin |sem| Equívocos nº 27, Summer 2023 edition