JaZzArt en València

Well, it is getting near to the end of October (2025) and it has been a very busy and interesting month. At the beginning of the month I returned to my studio base in Valencia after having been «on the road» for the previous three months in the Aegean Sea. It was a great trip back to Spain and I arrived to Barcelona and took the opportunity to see some friends there and the following day I took the train to Valencia.

So, right after I got back, practically without time to unpack, I had to make sure the final preparations for my solo show «La búsqueda» were ready. This was a big show, reminiscent of the one I did in 2023. I exhibited more than fifty pieces, including drawings and paintings. This time we also added the bottles designed and created by GAB. Although the show was a huge success, it was tiring and hard work, especially for tired bodies that had been on the road for over three months straight. Anyways, we received 1.217 visitors, very good, considering that we were rained out one entire day and three more days we opened during a severe storm that was passing through this area.

I had the opportunity to meet fabulous people from many different places. I conversed with young and old alike. I felt very good about that because I was able to confirm that people like art. People are still curious about art, traditional art created by the hands of an artist. I was asked, many times, to explain what I meant by «Art is the search» and I gladly replied.

Art is the search because before anything is put on canvas, paper, or sculpted, the artist searches for its meaning, for the best way to express it and for the dimensions, colour, form it should take. If an artist does not search he cannot find. so the actual act of searching becomes artistic subterfuge. An artist looks at patterns, shapes, colours, the brilliance of the light and the darkness of the shadows. Movement is represented in the shifting light, the subtle differences in the colour patterns and the bombastic expression caused by the power of bright, full colours.

These are the elements I search through and for to create my surreal-expressionist «JaZzArT». Jazz is dynamic, it flows with rhythm, it surprises you with improvisations and it captures your mind as the performer becomes both soloist and composer. Jazz is an expression of «controlled» freedom. One creates according to pre-established parameters, but one knows one will break the scheme and improvise. That is what I search for so that I can capture all those movements in my paintings.

So now I am getting ready for November…

Hope you have a happy, healthy and peaceful autumn. I pray that peace will come to the nations in conflict and that people realise that all one needs is LOVE…

CHEERS

I hope you like this version of my poem with visuals…

CHEERS

Nell’Oscurità del Silenzio

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Foreste nell’Oscurità del Silenzio

Lo spazio si espande come sale che cade da una saliera

rovesciata da qualcuno sul bancone della cucina,

e il sale sparso è un promemoria

di piccole stelle bianche

che brillano nelle foreste nell’oscurità del silenzio.

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La realtà fluttua come alberi senza radici,

che abbronzano le loro foglie

nel sole di mezzanotte

fatto di miele e farina.

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Pensieri scartati viaggiano lungo la Via Lattea,

combinando intenzione e luce stellare in trecce intricate.

I desideri fluttuano in stormi migratori attraverso strade colorate

verso la foresta nell’oscurità del silenzio.

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I pianeti fingono di esistere,

i buchi neri canticchiano ninne nanne

per cullare i sognatori irrequieti,

mentre le meteore passano sfiorando

come falene troppo timide per bruciare.

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Forse siamo solo attori

in una matrice piena di luce,

la nostra terra, le nostre ossa, i nostri sogni a occhi aperti,

creati per risvegliare il profeta dormiente che sogna

e ci tiene tra le braccia.

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Alla fine,

non c’è una fine.

solo ancora l’inizio,

che moltiplica il silenzio all’ennesima potenza,

trasformando l’infinito

nella saliera dell’assurdo.

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Una foresta nell’oscurità del silenzio

è una canzone composta di fumo

che riempie le ore vuote…

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di Francisco Bravo Cabreras, qui:

https://paintinginvalencia.com/2025/10/20/poem-in-the-blackness-of-silence-4/

Art is of the mind and its intention from the spirit… Without spirituality, which comes from its freshness and relevance to its time, art is useless…

CHEERS

This was one incredible painter, the artist known as il Furioso, the furious one…

CHEERS

Well, it is getting near to the end of October (2025) and it has been a very busy and interesting month. At the beginning of the month I returned to my studio base in Valencia after having been «on the road» for the previous three months in the Aegean Sea. It was a great trip back to Spain and I arrived to Barcelona and took the opportunity to see some friends there and the following day I took the train to Valencia.

So, right after I got back, practically without time to unpack, I had to make sure the final preparations for my solo show «La búsqueda» were ready. This was a big show, reminiscent of the one I did in 2023. I exhibited more than fifty pieces, including drawings and paintings. This time we also added the bottles designed and created by GAB. Although the show was a huge success, it was tiring and hard work, especially for tired bodies that had been on the road for over three months straight. Anyways, we received 1.217 visitors, very good, considering that we were rained out one entire day and three more days we opened during a severe storm that was passing through this area.

I had the opportunity to meet fabulous people from many different places. I conversed with young and old alike. I felt very good about that because I was able to confirm that people like art. People are still curious about art, traditional art created by the hands of an artist. I was asked, many times, to explain what I meant by «Art is the search» and I gladly replied.

Art is the search because before anything is put on canvas, paper, or sculpted, the artist searches for its meaning, for the best way to express it and for the dimensions, colour, form it should take. If an artist does not search he cannot find. so the actual act of searching becomes artistic subterfuge. An artist looks at patterns, shapes, colours, the brilliance of the light and the darkness of the shadows. Movement is represented in the shifting light, the subtle differences in the colour patterns and the bombastic expression caused by the power of bright, full colours.

These are the elements I search through and for to create my surreal-expressionist «JaZzArT». Jazz is dynamic, it flows with rhythm, it surprises you with improvisations and it captures your mind as the performer becomes both soloist and composer. Jazz is an expression of «controlled» freedom. One creates according to pre-established parameters, but one knows one will break the scheme and improvise. That is what I search for so that I can capture all those movements in my paintings.

So now I am getting ready for November…

Hope you have a happy, healthy and peaceful autumn. I pray that peace will come to the nations in conflict and that people realise that all one needs is LOVE…

CHEERS

Enjoy, comment, share…

CHEERS

I hope you enjoy this visual representation of these verses…

CHEERS

This image, which I have posted is property of The New York Times. I have shared it to display my horror and contempt for the Trump regime that has taken it upon themselves to terrorise people and to disrupt peaceful life. These “agents” should never walk the streets of any civilised city. They are not police, they are vicious thugs who do not know or understand respect for Human Rights.

Una gran poetisa y pintora, ya veréis…

Nació en Avellaneda, una ciudad de la provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina en 1936. Estudio Filosofía y Letras en la Universidad de Buenos Aires, pero también estudio pintura con Juan Batlle Planas, pintor surrealista argentino. De 1960 al 1964 Pizarnik vivió en París y trabajó para la revista Cuadernos. Además publicó poemas y críticas en varios diarios, estudió historia de las religiones y literatura francesa en La Sorbona. Cuando regresó a Buenos Aires, Pizarnik publicó tres de sus principales volúmenes: Los trabajos y las noches, Extracción de la piedra de locura y El infierno musical, y su trabajo en prosa La condesa sangrienta.

Aunque en 1969 recibió una beca Guggenheim, y en 1971 una Fullbright, Alejandra, el 25 de septiembre de 1972, mientras pasaba un fin de semana fuera de la clínica psiquiátrica donde estaba internada, se suicidó ingiriendo cincuenta pastillas de Seconal, un barbitúrico. Fue una gran escritora que dejó un valioso legado para la literatura latinoamericana.

Pero, hoy y aquí, vamos a fijarnos en el trabajo visual, o sea, vamos a echarle una mirada, breve, a Alejandra como poetisa de los pinceles y los colores…

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A great poetess and painter, you will see…

She was born in Avellaneda, a city in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1936. She studied Philosophy and Literature at the University of Buenos Aires, but also studied painting with Juan Batlle Planas, an Argentine surrealist painter. From 1960 to 1964, Pizarnik lived in Paris and worked for the magazine Cuadernos. Additionally, she published poems and critiques in various newspapers, studied the history of religions and French literature at the Sorbonne. When she returned to Buenos Aires, Pizarnik published three of her main volumes: Los trabajos y las noches, Extracción de la piedra de locura, and El infierno musical, as well as her prose work La condesa sangrienta.

Although she received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1969 and a Fulbright in 1971, Alejandra committed suicide by swallowing barbiturates, specifically Seconal, on September 25, 1972, while spending a weekend away from the psychiatric clinic where she was hospitalized. She was a great writer who left a valuable legacy for Latin American literature.

However, today and here, we are going to focus on the visual work, that is, we are going to take a brief look at Alejandra as a poetess of brushes and colors…

GRACIAS – CHEERS