Anyone who knows Fernando Varela's career will have been able to confront the reductionist process that has been taking place in his work for some time.
Communicative, chromatic and representative reduction. In this exhibition, the only reference to reality are the letters of a language apparently devoid of meanings.
La complejidad de sus presupuestos está proporcionalmente opuesta a la simplicidad del aspecto formal de la obra. En esto, su obra actual se acerca al lenguaje del minimal. Rehuye del gusto estético tradicional, produciéndose un distanciamiento de éste, iniciando con ello un proceso de ensimismamiento en la búsqueda de la «realidad» al margen de las apariencias. En este caso, el resultado son obras en las que el contenido intelectual es más importante que el mensaje que puedan percibir los sentidos del espectador, en una aproximación real a los lineamientos del arte conceptual.
The process of introspection and self-absorption on the part of the artist requires bold observations, willing to find in the exquisite details of his work and in its simplicity, the transcendental nature of his aesthetic proposals.
The words, rather the letters, and silence flood the work, in a total disinterest in preconceived forms. They are perfectionist works, made with the controlled passion that requires physical strength in the hammering of the letters on the canvas and subtlety. of the same action on paper. Equal skill in controlling the intensities of chromatic gradations, very concise by the way, whose sobriety also brings him closer to minimalism.
Traditional supports (canvas, paper, wood) with economy of forms evidence their presence before the gaze of the viewer who, in the attempt to capture their semantic meanings, initiates a silent dialogue with the work; despite the silence of his words.
El Museo de Arte Moderno se honra al recibir la exposición de Fernando Varela, pues es uno de los máximos representantes de la plástica dominicana.
Gracias al Grupo León por su importante aporte para la realización de esta exposición, reafirmando su tradicional posición en el mecenazgo del arte nacional.
