"Reoccurring themes exposed themselves within my work through a daily process of experimentation and investigation. This eventually led to the revealing of the fundamental ideas represented within my art practice. I integrate elements from oneiric and surrealist worlds; the figurative representations are very specific, yet somehow incomplete. My intent is to play with the concept of the character and its rendering and coloration. As an artist, I believe that continually challenging myself is of the utmost importance, it is how I construct a world that is both imaginative and rebellious. I’m never content simply with what is known, I am interested in exploring new ideas and new formal methods of creation. My studio is not only where I work but where I learn, dream, and imagine. Through my work, I aim to portray my own personal emotions. But at the same time, I believe in combining the personal with the unfamiliar and the unknown, I truly believe this is the only way to grow. And through this practice of discovering new truths, I continue to create art."
“ The real world is much smaller than the world of imagination”
Friedrich Nietzche
Johan Galue generates his artistic vision by integrating elements from oneiric and surrealist worlds where imagination reigns. Galue exposes his great interest and talent in drawing through the characters and thematic universe pictured in a hyper-realistic way. These characters are always represented in diffuse, blurry contexts, where they are often pictured as if floating or hovering indicating that veracity does not always exist in reality, at least as we strive to see it or identify it. Throughout the artist’s work, one of his defining traits is the dislocated proportional relationships he established between the figures and objects that he depicts. His paintings are nevertheless greatly inspired on the harsh reality which his mother country presently faces, as well as, by his constant exchange of ideas with local artists, poets and musicians.