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David Moratón exhibits his pictorial visions in the capital

“Fantasy and synesthesia” is the title of the proposal that can be seen until September 30 at Los Lavaderos, where oils made under the influence of natural music and composers like Wagner and Rautavaara are gathered

EL DÍA, S/C de Tenerife

Dreams and visions alternate with paintings made under the influence of music in “Fantasy and synesthesia”, the exhibition that David Moratón presents until next September 30 in the Los Lavaderos hall of the Tenerife capital.

“The decision”, “Titan”, “Odyssey”, “Wind” and “Sounds of birds” are some of the oils that make up the exhibition. This, according to its author, brings together a selection of work made in the last four years.

The first works, he comments, “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”.

Many of these paintings were made by the author during his stay in Germany, where he obtained his secondary education. Specifically in the faculty of Fine Arts of Hamburg, where he lived for three years, in the cities where he has exhibited, among others, in Valencia or Alicante.

Regarding the other works of more recent creation, Moratón indicates that they belong to the ambition of synesthesia. “I have – he says – a proposition. I hear colours. In an involuntary and unconscious way, I listen to sounds. Neurologists call it synesthesia.”

“Odyssey”, one of the oils on canvas that make up the expository proposal of David Moratón shown.

Yes, and it is not very extended among the population (some consider it an anomaly of perception). The song of the birds, music generated in the unconscious; automatically, abstract forms of colour, and other works in the exposition of these impressions.

Two of the four paintings that are exhibited were born from the transcription of segments of music, such as how this music appears in the mind of the creator, relative to the drama of Wagner “Tristan and Isolde”, whose music he specifically mentions in the painting. Other works are encountered within the chromatic influence of Finnish music, with pieces by composer Einojuhani Rautavaara. Similarly, the painting of Moratón, other paintings, and photographs, translate sounds of birds integrated in landscapes.

El Dia, Tenerife, Spain
15 September
2004