Hemingway, 2019

"Hemingway" is an artistic dialogue with Ernest Hemingway - a writer who saw in the bullfight not only a spectacle, but a metaphor for courage, dignity and the human condition. The impulse came from his fascination with the ritual of the arena, described among others in Death in the Afternoon, where beauty and danger remain inseparable.

The composition rests on a violent collision of intense red, deep black and expressive white gestures cutting across the surface like traces of movement and tension. The paint matter is dense and multi-layered, building a space in which energy, light and gesture remain in constant conflict. Successive layers reveal and conceal further meanings, much as the ritual of the bullfight discloses its true intentions only as it unfolds.

Within the Corrida series the work does not illustrate Hemingway's writing but enters into dialogue with it. It is a reflection on the moment of maximum concentration, when a person stands before their own limits and courage becomes a form of conscious presence.