Original artwork description:

It’s an acrylic, oil, charcoal and collage on linen painting, varnished to preserve and provide a deeper colour tone in the artwork and protect the collage. It’s from a series of paintings about Distorted Memories, fragments, clues and sequences that is our memories and dreams. Robert creates paintings notable for their texture, and sculptural presence with layers of impasto paint. His richness of palette and his use of strong colors that he put on linen canvas, creates a compelling work of mixed media art by which the viewer feels endlessly absorbed. The paintings may appear to refer to a typically Dadaist aesthetics, but at the same time they’re purged of the Dada polemic force and iconoclastic fury. In fact, the paintings colour, cut-outs, symbols of a mysterious past, like of the present, slowly emerge on the surface in a continuum of summons and recovery, composing and compressing themselves into new formal structures capable of returning the memory of reasons and feelings, and emotionally closer to the Rauschenberg’s memory to aim for a particular text and image to have an underlying meaning.

Materials used:

Paper, tempera, oil, acrylic, charcoal and ink

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