Spontaneity + happy marks + playful color = work that will always pull me in for a closer look. Add a secret message that speaks to my soul? You’ve won my heart, Rubén Martín de Lucas. I discovered this at the LA Art Show years ago and still can’t get it out of my mind. This painting says with two of my favorite things, color and words, exactly what I want YOU to know about ME. That wild thing gestating inside me? It’s well rooted and ready to grow – a colorful explosion of creativity punctuated by well chosen words, and this is the year it comes into its own.
From the artist: WILD GARDENS / THE GARDEN OF FUKUOKA
“This series of paintings, often titled as orchards, gardens or wild gardens, represents the diversity of every ecosystem and the “Wu Wei” strategy that Fukuoka brought to agriculture. Wu Wei is an oriental concept that can be translated as “non-action” understood as “non- interference”. Masanobu Fukuoka applied this concept to his fields of cereals and fruit trees, where he did not plow, he did not prune and he did not used chemicals of any kind, despite which came to equal the best results of industrial agriculture.
In these paintings that “flowing” and “minimal interference” are translated into a tremendously free pictorial language, where the force of the gestural coexists with wide areas of color, loose brushstrokes as empty spaces that are key for the balance of the work. All this dotted with fragments of text that refer to the philosophy of this Japanese farmer and philosopher.”
– Rubén Martín de Lucas
That sounds very conceptual, and I hadn’t known the inspiration before researching the artist, but WOW does that speak to years of “non-action” in my art and writing practice! Watch out 2023, I’ve got one heck of a neglected orchard ready to blossom.
About the artist: https://www.art-madrid.com/en/work/ruben-martin-de-lucas/large-wild-garden-03
Rubén Martín de Lucas IG: https://www.instagram.com/martindelucas/?hl=en
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