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Jardín de Epicuro, by Cristian Navarro. A golden flash dominates the panoramic format with the striking presence of a stained-glass window pierced by midday sun.

Cristian Navarro

Jardín de EpicuroSold

Year
2021
Technique
Acrylic/Canvas
Dimensions
90 × 210 cm
Status
Sold
Palette
golden yellow, pale yellow, night blue, vermilion red, cobalt blue
Brushwork
Sinuous black outlines with translucent tesserae and globular impasto in relief

Curatorial analysis

A golden flash dominates the panoramic format with the striking presence of a stained-glass window pierced by midday sun. Rather than unfolding as a uniform background, the upper ground breaks into an intricate network of polygonal cells that modulate light, organizing around an almost white central apex where the brightness becomes incandescent. This faceted fragmentation endows the atmosphere with a vitreous, expansive quality, serving as a radiant backdrop for a botanical display of formidable rhythmic intensity.

From a dense and deep midnight-blue base, a crowd of dark filaments erupts upward into the heights. These are not botanical stems in a literal sense, but sinuous vectors carrying small, color-saturated spherical nodules at their tips. Droplets of vermilion red, turquoise, violet, and cobalt float like tiny gems or glowing spores. The contrast between the shadowy base and the solar burst sustains an uninterrupted vibration; the dense verticality of these stems deliberately disrupts the more than two meters of horizontal support, pulling the gaze upward along with their acceleration.

The surface displays a material counterpoint between the translucent flatness of the solar fields and the tactile relief of the globular ends, evoking both the rigidity of enamel and the ductility of blown glass. Evoking that classical sanctuary where Epicurean serenity was nurtured apart from civic turmoil, the canvas offers no inert quietude, but a state of equilibrium in perpetual germination. The darkness below does not threaten the blaze, but constitutes its very premise: the nutrient bedrock from which an experience of pure sensory pleasure and celebratory illumination blossoms.

Jardín de Epicuro

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