Eduardo Vega Seoane

(Madrid, 1955)

Rasgos faciales

1990

mixed media (pressed charcoal and oil) on canvas

125.2 x 125.5 cm

Inv. no. 4175

BBVA Collection Spain


Vega de Seoane usually works with the cold light of dawn, as can be appreciated in this painting from the BBVA collection, in which the pure colours and blotches remain compact, sharing the space with undecipherable letters and characters that could contain some sort of message which the beholder is nevertheless unable to decode.
 
It would seem evident that the strength of the composition lies in the overlapping of various layers in the process of painting, in which the letters, fields of colour and the blurred graphic signs all compete for attention on equal terms.
 
The title of the painting, Rasgos faciales (Facial Features), is clarifying given that the actual composition proportions very little concrete information. In the early nineties the artist was to a large extent to return to figuration, which enabled him to give expression to a more legible discourse, even though the conscious disorder of the blotches of colour continued to take possession of the canvas.