Artist Biography
Sebastian Márquez Cladera, born in Madrid , Spain , 1948. Studied art at Sant Jordi high school of arts, Barcelona. Troubled by political turmoil under Franco regim, left for Sweden where he has been living since.
His oil paintings have been exibited in Sweden , Spain and USA , this is until 1990 when he adopted the digital tools and painted his first “pixel paintings”, as he called them.
The Amiga computer was his first “Pandora's Box” and where he met his first 3D software, “Imagine”. Just 3D as way to experiment with both form and color is a huge challenge, I am sure the future of painting.
Artist Statement
The way to modern art goes from the eternal silence painted on rock walls , done by our ancestors about 20000 years ago (They did 99% of the job, I would dare to affirm) through controlled balance and beauty from Mesopotamian relief , Greek sculptural perfection , roman mosaic explanations , Asian calligraphy delicacy, middle ages mysticism, book miniatures , renaissance , renaissance , renaicense, Dante , Da Vinci, Rafael, Spanish realism, Velazquez , Zurbaran, Spanish presurrealism, El Greco , Goya , Flemish realism, surrealism, Jeronimous Bosc, Vermeer, Pablo Picasso had a great responsability,The young ladies of Avignón (1907) introduced revolutionary elements, sensual five naked women, still not realistic, although violent, disturbing, forcing the observer to take part.
As in most revolutions, nothing could ever be the same again..what a demoniac mind this Picasso had!
From now on everything would be accepted as a media, newspapers, bathroom sanitarium, clothes, to begin with forced on the canvas with glue collages, later on as art objects in themselves, Marcel Duchamp being the most distinguished pioneer. What are all these installations but Duchamp's outcomePersonally I believe this period, around the 1917 soviet revolution, to be the most dynamic, decisive for the future of modern art. Vladimir Tatlin or Natalia Goncharova , the turning points?
Since then artists are going in circles, new technical tools, the digital Pandora Box, is challenging artists to experiment, learn, be humble in front of the vast ocean of creations the net offers... sometimes drunk in it.,. but emerging again and again.
Sebastian Márquez Cladera
