Burial 2009

Eduardo Berliner made this strange, compelling painting, Burial, with oil on canvas. Looking at the muted palette, the greys and pinks and greens, I imagine him building up the surface slowly, adding layers, scraping back. It's like he's digging into the canvas as much as the figure in the fox mask is digging into the earth. I wonder what Berliner was thinking about as he made this? Maybe he was thinking about childhood, loss, and transformation. There's a rawness to the application, a real physical engagement with the paint. See how the brushstrokes around the central figure are loose and gestural, almost like the paint itself is alive, shifting and changing. It's like he's channeling something primal, something deeply felt. Berliner’s art reminds me of other painters, like Tal R, who aren’t afraid to embrace the weird and unsettling. It’s like they're all in conversation, pushing the boundaries of what painting can be. What I love about painting is this ongoing exchange of ideas, this constant reinvention. It embraces ambiguity and uncertainty, allowing for multiple interpretations.