Oratory of St María Reina 2014

Raúl Berzosa created this painting, Oratory of St María Reina, on what I imagine to be a very large surface. The warm yellows and oranges really pop. I can imagine the artist moving around, painting it with big, sweeping gestures, figuring it out as they go. There's a sense of layering here, of the image emerging through trial, error, and intuition. I see a lot of activity, like figures floating. I’m thinking about the physicality of the medium. Is the paint thick or thin? How does the surface feel? Maybe Raúl was thinking about Baroque painters while making this. I imagine the artist being really immersed in the act of painting itself, almost like a dance. Artists are always in conversation, exchanging ideas across time, inspiring each other's creativity. Painting is such an embodied form of expression and I like that it embraces ambiguity, allowing for all kinds of interpretations.