Since he first started out, Pablo Armesto has been particularly fascinated with the use of light, installations and the public space to create works whose striking use of resources not generally seen in artworks, such as LED lighting, cause a deep impression.

This interest in light, a driving force behind his whole practice, has always been based on a philosophical or aesthetic concept, which, as the artist himself claims, “is more than light.”

Nordeste is a painterly work in which light is physically added to the picture by means of thin fibre optic cables and plays of shadows. This is one of the few works that include colour, this time with tones that range from blue to grey, an evident allusion to the colours of the sea and the wind. It is, in fact, a metaphor of the northeast wind, therein the title, whose movement is suggested by the play of lights and shadows that cuts across the picture horizontally. And like the wind that tears open the sky and helps to clear the atmosphere, the artist adds layers of stucco and paint and then planes the surface, giving rise to expressive lines that allow us to glimpse the LED lighting underneath.

Nordeste is a subtle vision that allows light to shine through.