AFRICAN SAVANNAH

ANIMALS OF THE AFRICAN CONTINENT

- Highlights: This work represented a great challenge for the artist. Achieving the desired balance required an extensive process of work and reflection that lasted six years. The first sketches began in June 2009, and it was in September of that same year when they started to be directly transferred onto the canvas.

- The change in scale added further complexity due to the level of detail in the drawings, which continued to develop directly on the canvas. The composition, made up of a multitude of small combined planes, remains to this day a true visual labyrinth. The work was completed on August 31, 2015.

130 x 180 cm

The artist in this work expresses with great strength, determination and color his vision of life. His intention also aims to reflect and rethink the reason for the humanitarian crises, social injustice and inequality in the current continent.

Poverty, desertification, poaching, climate change and its constant disadvantages with the other continents.

That is why the artist chose an animal native to Africa, to make us think about how we act globally. He puts it on stage in the first person to observe us. As if she silently knew of our actions. Do we really evolve or regress as a species? How do we act today? The gaze of a zebra with innocence and uncertainty in the face of an increasingly selfish, more banal and more indifferent society. Pangea, the prehistoric man in contrast with the current man. Reason and emotion. Life against the danger of predators.

In April 2020, this particular zebra traveled the internet until it reached a rural school in Kenya where a beautiful group of children with her referent met her and began to work with other artworks made by the artist. Love is a very powerful feeling. They named the zebra Manolo! So from now on Manolo neighs much happier than before, to truly accompany them, because theirs, only theirs is the world to come…