The painter David Moratón exhibits his fantasies in the ‘Los Lavaderos’ Hall

DIARIO DE AVISOS

SANTA CRUZ

“Life is more poetic when one seeks and experiments with the extraordinary. That’s why I paint my fantasies,” writes painter David Moratón in a small catalog that accompanies his exhibition Fantasy and synesthesia, which opens today, Friday September 10, at the Los Lavaderos Art Hall in Santa Cruz.

In this exhibition, the first in Tenerife by this young creator trained at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Hanover (Germany), David Moratón brings together a selection of work he has made during the last four years.

The first works emerge from the world of fantasy, “in its majority dreams or visions, spiral compositions encouraged by a philosophy that is situated in the subtle zone of encounter between occidental vitalism and oriental thought,” explains Moratón.

The last ones, he moves away from the fantastic and enters the field of synesthesia, “a capacity that allows me to see colours, in an involuntary and unconscious way, when listening to sounds.”

Sounds of birds I, work from 2004.

Two of the works collected in Fantasy and synesthesia are the transcription of segments of music (excerpts from Tristan and Isolde by Wagner), such as how this music appears in the painter’s mind. Another group also refers to the influence of music in art, such as those executed based on the work of Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara.

Diario de Avisos, Tenerife, Spain
10 September
2004