DAVID MORATÓN

ALICANTE, ESPAÑA / SPAIN, 1974. VIVE EN / LIVES IN TENERIFE

Licensed in Fine Arts by the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain), he specialized in Oil Painting and Engraving. He was also a guest student at the Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts, where he expanded his individual expression style. He has participated in several collective exhibitions and has had various individual shows, among which we can highlight the one held in 2004 at the Phoca-Mestiza Fine Arts Society in Tenerife, in the Historic Center of Hannover, Germany. His work has also been exhibited in the Valencian Community and at the Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts. He has participated in prestigious conferences such as the one held in 2001 at the American Center of Fuerteventura, Tenerife, and the one held in 2003 at the ICAI (European Institute of Applied Arts) in Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands.

A graduate of Fine Arts from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain), he specialized in Oil Painting and Engraving. He has also been a guest student at the Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts, where he expanded his individual expression style. He has participated in various collective exhibitions and has had various individual shows, among which we can highlight the one held in 2004 at Los Lavaderos, Tenerife, 2001; Phoca-Mestiza Fine Arts Society in Tenerife, Historic Center of Hannover, Germany. His work has also been exhibited in the Valencian Community and at the Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts. He has shown his work in group shows like the one held in 2002 that in 2003 at the ICAI (European Institute of Applied Arts) in Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands in 2001 at the American Center of Fuerteventura, Tenerife, and the one held in 2003 at the ICAI (European Institute of Applied Arts) in Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands.

Satori, 2004
Video installation 3 DVD /
Oil on canvas
Duration / Duración: 11′

Satori, 2004
Oil on canvas (81.4 x 61.3 cm) /
Óleo sobre lienzo
116 x 89 cm

Courtesy of the artist /
Cortesía del artista

Collection:
Llibret de Arquitectura Arte y
Paisaje de Canarias

Satori is a Japanese word that literally means to comprehend, and it is used in Zen and refers to a name a special moment of enlightenment in the consciousness. One arrives at this moment by means of the action of the mind and the contemplation of the essence of Buddha or of being.

This is how David Moratón begins to describe his project for the video installation consisting of a audio and a photography landscape created using sophisticated digital techniques, which interacts are based on a series of hypnotic cycles by the artist in the Las Canteras landscape (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) at different hours from the same spot, composing a 360 degree complete circle of a landscape surrounded in space and time, surrounded by a mysterious and exotic ambiance. The artist creates a mysterious and hypnotic atmosphere that reflects the same spot in which he places different scenes staged in natural spaces like the Tierra Secreta Park, within the bounds of the landscape made “visible,” a product of the painstaking work of the artist in harmonizing the relationship between the natural environment and the architecture with his natural phenomena, very much to the face in other works by the artist.

Catalogue, Tenerife, Spain
September
2006