Proyect-assemblages

WINE PAINTING PROJECT THE INVESTIGATION

Wine painting sprung from an experiment in Mendoza’s studio, República Argentina, land of vineyards and with a strong viticulture tradition. The first experience was interesting, then other trials, technical tests and different wine combinations have been added. Today the project is about ten years and it continues growing.

THECHNICAL

The resource material is made out of red wines(directly from the bottle, boild ¿?, taken from the bottom of the barrel or extracted in lab) mixed with organic agglutinants(orange oil-milk oil-beewax-turpentine-etc). For the final protection I use a special burnish that is also organic. I usually paint on canvas.

COLOR AND TEXTURE

The range colour goes from earth coloured (bottom of the barrel), going through greys (wine poured directly from the bottle, like a wine stain on a table cloth), rubies (grape skin extracted), violets(young wines), to blacks (wine shoot charcoal). The texture goes from the lightest to the thickest. From the fluidity of the liquid wine to paste of the bottom of the barrel mixed with the organic agglutinant

THEMAMATIC

At the beginning of the project the images were mainly abstract with the colour and the shapes as the main subject . In a natural process starting from fortuitous wine spots kept emerge oniric figures from the wine world. Some pictures are framed with staves of barrel (in small and large size) screw together in its four corners and with the canvas stretched from behind by tacks. This kind of framing is not only functional (because it works both as frame and as stretcher strips) it is also a symbol, because the vintage continues between the wine and the oak. Both as visual components. The canvas stretched on the four strips takes naturally the four curves of the staves. It produces a special bending effect that allows it to come out of the regular bidimensional state of a canvas.

OTHER PIECES

They are assemblages of found and selected pieces of wineceller, mainly woods and barrel tops that structure a sculptural piece with the adding of oil painting, collage, papier-mâché, thorns, horns, metal, etc… These recycled wood assemblages symbolize the handcraft work of the old wine cellars.

Retables

Ce sont des pièces trouvées dans des caves (essentiellement des pièces de bois et des couvercles de tonneaux), et sélectionnées afin de constituer des ensembles, en y ajoutant peinture à l'huile, photographies collées, papier mâché, épines, cornes, débris de métal, etc.

Ces ensembles de pièces de bois recyclées font référence au mode de travail artisanal dans les caves.

L'ESPRIT DU VIN

Sang rouge de la terre qui se transforme en esprit, Esprit qui nous accompagne durant les repas Réveillant nos passions, Vaincs notre timidité et égaie notre tristesse...

Rouges, ocres, violets, couleurs de l'esprit qui façonnent la toile pour que nos émotions perdurent, pour que le fruit du sol et du temps ne s’évanouisse comme un rêve, pour que le rêve trouve son expression propre et unique. Matière organique en transformation, matière expression de l'âme, matière qui interprète nos racines, le fruit fructifie dans l'art.

Rêves de la raison qui se fondent en formes et qui rendent hommage à la vie, au vin compagnon de l'homme, libérateur de l'âme, qui enivre nos sens.