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Free spirit (2023)Acrylic painting by Luis López Cabán
60 x 80 x 1.5cm (unframed) / 60 x 80cm (actual image size)
£2,336.72
Original artwork description
Free Soul, 2023
I painted Free Soul in Hamburg in 2023, although the emotional impulse behind the work emerged during a trip I took along the Colombian Caribbean coast in September of that same year. While traveling there, I revisited El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (No One Writes to the Colonel) by Gabriel García Márquez, a novel whose quiet atmosphere of waiting, dignity, and stubborn hope stayed deeply with me.
The rooster I depict is a fighting cock of the kind traditionally used in cockfights throughout the Caribbean, animals often tied to betting, pride, and survival. In García Márquez’s novel, the rooster represents the colonel’s last hope, the fragile possibility of economic salvation in a life marked by poverty and endless waiting. The colonel refuses to sell the bird, clinging to it as a symbol of dignity and resistance.
In my painting, however, the rooster is not preparing to fight. It appears in motion, almost escaping the darkness, as if dissolving into the air. Its body glows with intense reds, oranges, and dark iridescent feathers, emerging briefly from the surrounding shadow before vanishing again. I wanted the figure to feel fleeting, like a presence that appears only for an instant.
In this sense, the rooster also evokes the letters that never arrive in the novel: messages endlessly awaited but never delivered. Like those missing letters, the bird becomes something fugitive, an image of expectation, hope, and desire that constantly slips away. It appears, moves, and disappears.
Through this painting, I wanted to capture that fragile moment between hope and absence. The rooster becomes a metaphor for longing itself, like a promise that never fully materializes, yet continues to live in the stubborn persistence of the one who waits.
Artist note:
The artwork offered here is a unique original painting created by me in 2023 in Hamburg.
My paintings are part of private collections in Berlin, San Juan, Los Angeles, Dallas, Paris, Buenos Aires, Singapore, Bogotá, New York, Michigan and Madrid.
Please note that the perception of colors may vary slightly depending on individual monitor settings.
If you have any questions about my work or would like additional photos or videos with more detailed views of the painting, I would be happy to provide them. Please feel free to contact me.
SHIPPING DETAILS
◾ This painting will be carefully packed with the utmost attention and shipped free of charge, rolled in a strong protective cardboard tube to ensure safe international transportation. The artwork will be sent via UPS with tracking and is expected to arrive within approximately 4–7 days, depending on the destination country.
◾ Rolled canvas works can easily be stretched onto wooden stretcher bars and/or framed by a professional framer upon arrival.
◾ The artwork is signed by the artist.
◾ Please note that the artwork is not externally framed. The canvas is shipped rolled for safer international transport and can be professionally stretched or framed once received.
◾ Buyers are responsible for any import duties, customs fees, or local taxes that may apply depending on the regulations of the destination country.
◾ Returns are accepted within 14 days of delivery. In the event of a return, the buyer is responsible for the return shipping costs, and the artwork must be returned in its original condition and packaging.
◾ If you have any questions regarding shipping, packaging, or the artwork itself, please feel free to contact me. I will be happy to assist you.
Materials used:
Acrylic on canvas
Details:
- Acrylic painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 60 x 80 x 1.5cm (unframed) / 60 x 80cm (actual image size)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the front
- Style: Graphic, illustrative and typographic
- Subject: Animals and birds
Tags:
#caribbean#birds#animals#colors#colombia#chicken painting#alarm clock#fighting roosters#garcia marquez#gallo de
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Original artwork description
Free Soul, 2023
I painted Free Soul in Hamburg in 2023, although the emotional impulse behind the work emerged during a trip I took along the Colombian Caribbean coast in September of that same year. While traveling there, I revisited El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (No One Writes to the Colonel) by Gabriel García Márquez, a novel whose quiet atmosphere of waiting, dignity, and stubborn hope stayed deeply with me.
The rooster I depict is a fighting cock of the kind traditionally used in cockfights throughout the Caribbean, animals often tied to betting, pride, and survival. In García Márquez’s novel, the rooster represents the colonel’s last hope, the fragile possibility of economic salvation in a life marked by poverty and endless waiting. The colonel refuses to sell the bird, clinging to it as a symbol of dignity and resistance.
In my painting, however, the rooster is not preparing to fight. It appears in motion, almost escaping the darkness, as if dissolving into the air. Its body glows with intense reds, oranges, and dark iridescent feathers, emerging briefly from the surrounding shadow before vanishing again. I wanted the figure to feel fleeting, like a presence that appears only for an instant.
In this sense, the rooster also evokes the letters that never arrive in the novel: messages endlessly awaited but never delivered. Like those missing letters, the bird becomes something fugitive, an image of expectation, hope, and desire that constantly slips away. It appears, moves, and disappears.
Through this painting, I wanted to capture that fragile moment between hope and absence. The rooster becomes a metaphor for longing itself, like a promise that never fully materializes, yet continues to live in the stubborn persistence of the one who waits.
Artist note:
The artwork offered here is a unique original painting created by me in 2023 in Hamburg.
My paintings are part of private collections in Berlin, San Juan, Los Angeles, Dallas, Paris, Buenos Aires, Singapore, Bogotá, New York, Michigan and Madrid.
Please note that the perception of colors may vary slightly depending on individual monitor settings.
If you have any questions about my work or would like additional photos or videos with more detailed views of the painting, I would be happy to provide them. Please feel free to contact me.
SHIPPING DETAILS
◾ This painting will be carefully packed with the utmost attention and shipped free of charge, rolled in a strong protective cardboard tube to ensure safe international transportation. The artwork will be sent via UPS with tracking and is expected to arrive within approximately 4–7 days, depending on the destination country.
◾ Rolled canvas works can easily be stretched onto wooden stretcher bars and/or framed by a professional framer upon arrival.
◾ The artwork is signed by the artist.
◾ Please note that the artwork is not externally framed. The canvas is shipped rolled for safer international transport and can be professionally stretched or framed once received.
◾ Buyers are responsible for any import duties, customs fees, or local taxes that may apply depending on the regulations of the destination country.
◾ Returns are accepted within 14 days of delivery. In the event of a return, the buyer is responsible for the return shipping costs, and the artwork must be returned in its original condition and packaging.
◾ If you have any questions regarding shipping, packaging, or the artwork itself, please feel free to contact me. I will be happy to assist you.
Materials used:
Acrylic on canvas
Details:
- Acrylic painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 60 x 80 x 1.5cm (unframed) / 60 x 80cm (actual image size)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the front
- Style: Graphic, illustrative and typographic
- Subject: Animals and birds
Tags:
#caribbean#birds#animals#colors#colombia#chicken painting#alarm clock#fighting roosters#garcia marquez#gallo de