Sara Morales
Dame Tu AlientoInquire about availability
- Year
- 2013
- Technique
- Acrylic/Canvas
- Dimensions
- 100 × 80 cm
- Status
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Curatorial analysis
Curatorial analysis
An incandescent vermilion background sustains the near-weightless collision of two equine masses. This is not a simple anatomical portrait, but the compression of space between two heads seeking mutual recognition. At the point of maximum tension, the muzzles and nostrils nearly graze each other in the upper third of the canvas, giving literal weight to the title: another's breath shared as a vital substance in full gallop.
The anatomy fractures into facets and planes cut with deliberate speed. The lines do not enclose static figures; instead, they channel vectors of force traveling through the flank, mane, and chest of the foreground animal. This ascending diagonal, rising from the lower left corner toward the upper right apex, generates an internal rotation where the pale horse absorbs and reflects light, while its darker counterpart serves as a gravitational anchor and dramatic counterweight.
Across the canvas, the acrylic operates through layers of varying density. Flat, saturated passages coexist with angular brushstrokes, where cerulean blues, turquoises, and flashes of olive green disrupt the ivory coat to cool the background's fiery combustion. These cool accents do not describe realistic shading; they function as chromatic splinters recording the displacement of air and frozen motion. Swift, synthetic dark strokes define the contours with the immediacy of a large-scale drawing.
This ambiguity between combat and tenderness gives the scene its deepest pulse. The proximity of the muzzles holds a fierce intimacy, where the muscular drive of two unleashed beasts is suddenly arrested in the fragility of a shared breath. The painting captures that precise moment when raw velocity foregoes collision to become communion.
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5 works
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