This excellent work fuses silkscreen and painting, two of the artist’s preferred media, which he combines and blends to create a truly magnetic composition.

Caballero’s professional career was marked by his passion for theatre and poetry. He was close friends with two heavyweights of 20^th century literature: Federico García Lorca and Pablo Neruda. Though he was interested in Surrealism, his art was more geared towards an exploration of chromaticism, from the perspective of asceticism and spirituality at the service of literature.

This work coincided in time with a series of lithographs he made to illustrate Oceana, a collection of poems by Neruda, in which the weight of the composition rests on the circle.

Día nada is the result of a complex process of creation where, even if it we may think otherwise, there is no room for chance. The support features three antithetical figures rendered in three different phases. Firstly, the red pyramid on which a black glaze combining creases, lightness and transparency is partially superimposed. These two figures are silk-screened. Finally, the circle is a kind of maelstrom powerfully drawn with the aid of acrylic paint. This quasi-lunar presence to which the title (day nothing) seems to allude occupies a large part of the surface. After finishing the work, unhappy with the colour of the background, Caballero repainted it patiently in a lighter tone to give the piece the power it now conveys.