Mario Colina paints faces and characters in imaginary spaces where he gets carried away by a surreal, Kafkaesque feeling. Colina attempts to merge the classic with the modern through figurative proposals. Female characters are the central axis in his paintings, juxtaposed in various ways through a play with light, darkness, color, texture, eroticism, sensuality, time, and the oneiric.
I sometimes don’t know what my artwork is about when I begin the creation process, all I know is I allow myself be carried away by a surreal, Kafkaesque feeling.
My work is composed of faces and characters in imaginary spaces, often obscured by atmospheres of partial shadows covering their skin so as not to expose their vulnerability.
In some of my work, through the use of perspective, the protagonists move between indeterminate spaces, in some instances inviting a curiosity within the viewer to decipher an entire visual field of symbology. I attempt to merge the classic with the modern through figurative proposals. Female characters are the central axis in my paintings, juxtaposed in various ways through a play with light, darkness, color, texture, eroticism, sensuality, time, and the oneiric. All these themes harmonize together in the proposition of my body of work. Why say anything else?