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Painting of Enriquillo Rodriguez Amiama, one of the most
outstanding Dominican painters of the called Generation of the 80, at
the moment struggles between the intimacy and a deepening and a
bigger complexity of the space illusionism, that an amplification of
the repertoire of thematic resources also supposes, technical and
expressive, without a rupture solution, nevertheless, with which it
has been his artistic production of the last decade. It is treated
then, of a evolution, but not a jump, within the patterns of that
symbolist figurative, so rooted in the Dominican earth, its daily recurrent, and its reasons.Rodriguez Amiama has done, from long ago time already, something
different with a subject reiterated within the Dominican art, where
the fruit reasons and still life, beyond the exercises of factory
and the fan works , have fed the vein on the more or less
academic classicism of cut more than no other line, with as
remarkable examples as Mariano Eckert and Leon Bosch, as much as an
art more in the line of the historical vanguards, as he has been the
one of Joseph Gausachs.
Still life symbolist, in the footpath of "bodegon" baroque Spanish,
but in neo figurative key, that integrate even graphics signs and
abstraction elements, is the great contribution of Rodriguez
Amiama to the pictorial universe of our country.
Recent integrations between still life and landscape, integrate to
mango, leitmotif of their iconographic world, symbol of desire
and the Dominican being, as a loving form of yearning, with a series
of successive planes, that allow to the artist a alternation of
geometric tempos and spots, of precisions and studied imprecision,
and of permutations varied from a repertoire of formal and
chromatic resources in principle simple, but rich in composition
possibilities.
With these and other images the artist remembers to us what or we
knew, but we return to confirm, and is that the history of the
Dominican painting of the two last decades would be incomplete
without the mention of an artist who summarizes and fuses several
traditions of our plastic one, in a rigorously personal assembly,
integrated, in which diverse levels of language coexist of way
ordered, from pictogram to the abstract spot or figurative icon.
Integration, of the human figure, introduces a iconology
ambiguity again that forces the reinterpretation of the assembly
of the images, where the feminine image is multiplied like wanted
and desirous subject, that as well power an animistic appreciation
quasi of the fruit element, emblem, like in the Vanities of the
baroque one, attractive and the mortal, so that the famous poem of
Requiem to painter Paula Modershon Becker of Rainer poet remembers
Maria Rilke.
This beautiful exposure in Panama de Rodriguez Amiama, in Mateo
Sariel Gallery, is simultaneously a summary of the searches and the
findings of the artist in the last years, and a glimpse of which
seems to pre appear itself like their next lines of investigation.
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