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Punta de pescadores, by Rafael Ángel "Felo" García Picado. An incandescent band of vermilion red cleaves the horizon, immediately disrupting any expectation of maritime calm.
Technique
Screen Print
Dimensions
30 × 30 cm
Edition
2/50
Status
Available
Palette
vermilion red, mustard yellow, ochre, lime green, warm gray
Brushwork
Flat screenprint inks contrasting with gestural, schematic black line work.

Curatorial analysis

An incandescent band of vermilion red cleaves the horizon, immediately disrupting any expectation of maritime calm. This fiery mass does not function as a simple twilight background, but rather as an almost volcanic presence compressing the space between a sky furrowed by nervous filaments and a flat bay rendered in dense planes of yellow and ochre.

To the left of the frame, the vernacular architecture of the settlement climbs the hillside with volumetric urgency. The cluster of houses rises through contrasting blocks of flat color (turquoise, lime green, pure yellow, and magenta) whose sharp boundaries dialogue with the neutral background. This chromatic density gathers the dwellings into a compact, lived-in mass that counters the lonely vastness of the shoreline. The rhythm of the facades, crowded yet synthetic, anchors the left half of the serigraph before releasing the gaze toward the open coast.

Resting on the sand, a solitary skiff is delineated with jagged lines that evoke timber weathered by brine. The silkscreen approach favors an uncompromising graphic economy: the black line does not merely bind color, but floats above it with gestural autonomy. That same agile drawing scatters across the sky, where suspended arcs suggest coastal gusts as much as the electric vibration of heat.

The landscape deliberately sidesteps picturesque complacency. Instead, the scene delivers an austere, scorching vision of the coast, where human shelter and the tools of the trade endure beneath the constant presence of a blazing atmosphere.

Punta de pescadores

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