The
curve, the luster, the transparency of glass that provokes
the desire to touch, to penetrate, to caress...Why? In
what mix of impression, discovery and research serve?
I
was deeply
troubled by these images in movement, which I experienced
in the universe of Fernando Ureña Rib. Perpetual sculpted
spaces, open spaces, folded, contoured, projected. A world
of soft forms, polishes, infinities open to multiple
dimensions provoking one to touch.
The
texture skin of canvas, of sculpture of the Dominican
artist reflects self. Continuously tempted to place one
hand on the curve, and follow the lines. What is the
aftertaste or rather the before taste of the dream that
escaped me?
The
desire that never ceases to renew itself, allows oneself
to fulfill the adventure.
Concerning
the organic forms we question ourselves: are they flowers,
shells, fruits of the sea or women? The most
representative figures were a couple enlaced together on
horseback, always, the blues, the ochre's, and the orange.
Creating a magic moment where time is suspended.
A
breath of life and intimacy surprises you, forcing you to
stop. His images are always fluid, melting, free of
constraints, crossing boundaries of rigid spaces and fixed
ideas.
Curious,
sensitive, indulgent, deeply intense, of perseverance, of
conviction and desire, that is how I would briefly
describe the artist that I've met.
Those
imaginative worlds freed from the pressures of imitation
and representation, having their own magic, impregnated
with the spontaneous associations of dreams, those
imaginative worlds are organized on canvas and paper...as
in the work of Fernando Ureña Rib. So we reaffirm that the
artist in his last metamorphoses has evolved a fantastic
surrealism. This is an open face of youthful maturity
susceptible of other unsuspected evolutionary solutions.
DANIELLE DEGARIE
