The artwork depicts a striking abstract composition with a dramatic interplay of colors. The canvas is dominated by broad, horizontal brushstrokes that transition from warm orange tones at the top to deep blue hues at the bottom, creating a sense of depth and movement. The artist's use of bold, expressive brushwork and a limited color palette suggest an exploration of the emotive power of abstract form and color. This piece likely reflects the artist's personal exploration of the human experience and their desire to evoke a contemplative mood through the visual language of abstraction. ...
Mateo Zúñiga’s practice emerges from a deep engagement with painting, drawing, and the creation of nuanced spaces. His work explores subtle, almost ephemeral worlds, emphasizing chromatic relationships, transparency, movement, and the interplay between materiality and immateriality. He embraces simplicity, experimentation, and the poetic potential of materials, balancing control and spontaneity, order and disorder, reason and unconscious impulses. Nature serves as a foundational element in Zúñiga’s work, yet it is memory, lived experience, and everyday observations that inform his compositions. He meditates on the passage of time, the traces of presence, and the contrasts between black and white, lightness and density, absence and form. With a multidisciplinary approach informed by postmodern and post-war artistic tendencies, Zúñiga treats painting and drawing as evolving processes—series of actions, experiments, and reflections. He constructs atmospheres and moments that invite introspection, exploring the chromatic and textural possibilities of his media while navigating the tension between reason and intuition. His work engages viewers in subtle, contemplative encounters, offering spaces where material, memory, and perception converge. ...
