Guillermo Conte
Niños Pescando VerdeInquire about availability
- Year
- 2019
- Technique
- Oil/Canvas
- Dimensions
- 176 × 159 cm
- Status
- Inquire about availability
- Palette
- mustard yellow, olive green, lime green, forest green, carbon black
- Brushwork
- Fluid glazes, oil washes, and fine calligraphic strokes on a gestural background worked with scraping.
Curatorial analysis
Curatorial analysis
An incandescent wash of acid yellow and moss green nearly swallows the entire visible field. Within this saturated atmosphere, hovering between the density of a marshy pond and the reverberation of an almost blinding glare, five childish silhouettes emerge. Miniscule in scale relative to the monumental format of the canvas, the boys wear vintage suits and shorts, suspended in the patient act of fishing. Their rods, slender black filaments traced with a fine brush, attempt to probe a depth that defies being read merely as water or pure pigment.
The pictorial matter operates here through dissolution and glazing. The oil paint, thinned to an extreme liquidity that evokes India ink or watercolor, runs in drippings, transparencies, and darker sedimentations that anchor both the top and bottom of the canvas. In the center, beneath the fishermen's feet, lines of cursive handwriting hover without surrendering their message. This calligraphic script, reminiscent of private letters or forgotten notes, underscores the ghostly resonance of the scene: the children do not seem to inhabit a contemporary natural setting, but rather rise from a sediment of memory, like faded figures on the yellowed paper of a submerged archive.
A subtle rhythm governs the vertical arrangement of the figures, staggered along a broken axis that draws the gaze into the distance. The dark, sinuous reflections of their bodies on the liquid surface interrupt the chromatic uniformity, establishing a tension between the buoyancy of childhood play and the weight of a silent, engulfing atmosphere. The vibration of the color does not offer warmth, but rather a vegetal and oneiric uncanny, where the recollection of youth remains frozen on a threshold where nature and time dissolve into paint.
More works by Guillermo Conte
32 works
Available works
- Niños RojosGuillermo Conte · 2020
- Niños RojosGuillermo Conte · 2021
- AguaGuillermo Conte · 2024
- FelicidadGuillermo Conte · 2021
- Homenaje a "Bonnard"Guillermo Conte · 2025
- Almendros AmarillosGuillermo Conte · 2022
- lirios en VerdeGuillermo Conte · 2019
- Abrazo #2Guillermo Conte · 2025
- JuncosGuillermo Conte · 2025
- Orquídeas AzulesGuillermo Conte · 2025
- Paseo por Cabo PoloniaGuillermo Conte · 2025
- Playa ViejaGuillermo Conte · 2025
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