SURREAL AWAKENING | 1997 - 2000
“To me, this stage represents a deep connection with the subconscious and with profound existential ideas: the universe, life, and death; concepts that guide us toward a philosophy of the mind and the soul.”
Series Overview & Concept
“When the surreal becomes logical, and the artist stands firmly on the ground, they can take a small piece of it and make it fly elsewhere.”
To me, this stage represents a deep connection with the subconscious and with profound existential ideas. The cosmos, life, and death become guiding concepts, leading us toward a philosophy of the mind and the soul. It is an open space where the boundaries between reality and imagination completely dissolve, allowing the artist to explore deeper questions of existence, consciousness, and our place within the universe.
The Existential Dilemmas & Plastic Poetry
In this raw and transformative era, Charó dives straight into the timeless questions that haunt human consciousness: creation, destiny, the relativity of time, love, God, and change itself. Rather than treating these themes as separate intellectual thoughts, he unifies them with emotional shifts and vibrant palettes, capturing them as "songs" onto the canvas. The planes within these paintings deliberately fight to cease being flat, attempting to break the surface to pull the viewer into their own deep, infinite atmosphere—stretching straight from the artist's soul to yours.
Visual Language & Metaphors
The visual rhythm of "Surreal Awakening" balances psychological weight with symbolic flight:
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The Bridge of Transformation: The compositions often depict a quiet dance of renewal, starting in darker, deep tones where the mind's internal demons exhaust the spirit, only to transition into outstretched hands and figures reaching through the void to seek one another.
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The Dissolving Beings: Characters are rendered as pseudo-beings who dissolve into simple lines before boldly reappearing in highly vibrant, contrasting oil colors. This technique effectively bridges multiple experimental styles across a single exhibition space.
Artistic Technique
Developed primarily between 1997 and 2000, this series showcases a masterclass in classic fine art execution. Utilizing high-contrast oil on canvas, smooth glazing, and raw impasto applications, Charó creates hidden symbols and surrealist figures that demand an active, conscious gaze. Like life itself, this foundational collection is designed as a larger story that beautifully gives birth to many more stories to come.
"FROM SURREALISM"- 1997
The universe comprises profound existential dilemmas: creation, destiny, the relativity of time, love, God, death, and change itself. I have sought to unify these dilemmas through a continuous evolution of ideas, shifting color palettes, and emotional landscapes, all translated into a form of plastic poetry.
These are songs captured on canvas; planes that I wish would cease to be flat, breaking the surface to become part of their own deep, infinite atmosphere—stretching straight from my soul to yours. Within these works, I present diverse plastic stages, all beautifully unified into a single exhibition.
I hope you truly enjoy this journey. Much like life itself, this story is designed to give birth to many more stories to come.
"El puente"- 1999
The bond between the artist and the work is a quiet dance of transformation, a whisper of renewal.
It begins in darkness, where the mind’s demons wear down the soul, and yet, from that place, emerges connection: figures reaching through the void, hands outstretched, seeking one another.
Change and renewal take form in a shifting figure; a pseudo-being who dissolves into simplicity, only to reappear in bolder, more vibrant colors.
Thus, two styles meet, their hands clasped across time and canvas, bridging one expression to the next.
"El puente"- 1999
The bond between the artist and the work is a quiet dance of transformation, a whisper of renewal.
It begins in darkness, where the mind’s demons wear down the soul, and yet, from that place, emerges connection: figures reaching through the void, hands outstretched, seeking one another.
Change and renewal take form in a shifting figure; a pseudo-being who dissolves into simplicity, only to reappear in bolder, more vibrant colors.
Thus, two styles meet, their hands clasped across time and canvas, bridging one expression to the next.
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