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Turquesa Sendero Turquesa, by Álvaro Gómez. Turquoise bursts forth here not to imitate vegetation, but to assert an intense, magnetic chromatic energy over an ostensibly mineral substrate.
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Álvaro Gómez

Turquesa Sendero TurquesaSold

Year
2015
Technique
Acrylic/Canvas
Dimensions
60 × 70 cm
Status
Sold
Palette
turquoise, petroleum green, cream, terracotta, dark brown
Brushwork
Punctual, controlled impastos of opaque color overlaid on fluid curtains of gravity-dripped acrylic.

Curatorial analysis

Turquoise bursts forth here not to imitate vegetation, but to assert an intense, magnetic chromatic energy over an ostensibly mineral substrate. In the lower half of the canvas, hundreds of fleshy corollas cluster like a plant tide or an underwater lichen colony. Each bud, rendered with precise impasto in greenish-blue and dark accents at its base, seems to rise upon filiform stems that anchor the visual weight of the surface.

As the gaze ascends, this concentrated mass of petals loses density and surrenders center stage to an enveloping curtain of vertical glazes. Over grounds of umber, terracotta, and sienna, thick drips of off-white and cream cascade driven by gravity. This material shower does not bury the blooms; rather, it seems to nourish them within an atmosphere suspended between the dampness of a dense downpour and the petrification of a karstic wall. A direct dialogue thus unfolds between the rhythmic cadence of the sprouts and the aleatory behavior of the liquid spill.

The trail invoked by the title traces neither a linear perspective nor a traditional horizon. The proposed path is purely perceptual: it invites the eye to journey from the tactile saturation at the base toward the vaporous dissolution at the top. At this crossroads of sedimentary geology and imaginary botany, the painting acts as an ecosystem where the acrylic simultaneously assumes the role of fertile soil, mutant flora, and enveloping atmosphere, revealing a nature in perpetual plastic regeneration.

Turquesa Sendero Turquesa

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