Deer... and Something Else

Starting from the principles of an ancestral Chinese technique, which is more philosophy than technique, Amalia Abreu approaches the symbolic flow of one of the animals most recreated by painting: the deer.

The plastic strength of this creature (elegance, slenderness, grace) poses a challenge for the artist who tries to summarize it with the formal essentiality of an art that shuns baroque style.

Abreu achieves this, placing the animals in more or less bare environments, using great economy of resources.

In her series Persecution, the deer is important, which becomes a representation of an idea of ​​freedom and perfection.

Sometimes the metaphor becomes more complex, to the same extent that the plastic framework becomes more diverse.

Sometimes a minimalist atmosphere is established, as if it were a matter of concentration. Amalia Abreu understands (and translates) the powerful influence of silence.

Translated by Amilkal Labañino / CubaSí Translation Staff