Fabelo -
Colibrí DescansandoInquire about availability
- Year
- 2014
- Technique
- Giclée
- Dimensions
- 100 × 80 cm
- Status
- Inquire about availability
- Palette
- terracotta, burnt sienna, graphite, pinkish ivory, off-white
- Brushwork
- Fluid terracotta-colored glazes combined with meticulous graphite drawing and calligraphic filigrees.
Curatorial analysis
Curatorial analysis
Two opposite directions organize the image: to the right, the bowed, serene profile of a human face projects outward, while to the left curves the monumental body of a hummingbird whose presence envelops the crown of the head. The anatomy is not merely juxtaposed, but fused into a single organic mass where the rust-red plumage functions simultaneously as hair, ceremonial headdress, and winged flesh. The bird's elongated beak descends vertically along the left flank, culminating in a small dark droplet that anchors the composition's gravitational pull.
At the blind spot where the skull yields its volume to the curvature of the bird rests an immaculate egg, modeled with a luminous delicacy reminiscent of an earlier era. This element concentrates the symbolic tension of the piece: it suggests both an idea physically emerging from the mind and a seed being brooded in the silence of thought. The drawing operates across two distinct registers, combining the subtle, almost photographic shading of the face with broad terracotta washes and calligraphic strokes climbing from the chest, as though script itself were the sap nourishing this metamorphosis.
The human gaze, shadowed beneath lowered lids, shuns outside contact, contrasting with the bird's round eye, awake and penetrating. There is no sign of violence or subjugation between the two beings; the scene establishes an oneiric and biological coexistence where the fragility of reverie rests upon the quiet intensity of the hummingbird. By suspending this hybrid figure against an absolute white void, the surface renounces any spatial anchor to present itself as the intimate portrait of poetic gestation.
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