Untitled Acrylic on canvas 240 x 190 cm 2020 . This piece was the last one I created for the @zonamaco project. I can’t tell you how hard it was to make, although every piece is hard this was even harder because of the deadline. I had only one chance to make it because I had to allow time for it to dry then some more time for the transport to Mexico. I had already painted the other 6 paintings for this project in a record time, I began in November, I was exhausted. Painting is inseparable from my personal life, I cannot paint if I doesn’t have my head right, that is, paintings come out badly if I don’t have my affairs in order, I must be concentrated, focused, no problems pending, no confusions, no trouble with anyone, no unfinished businesses. And as we all know that is very hard to come by and every once in a while whether you want it or not sh*t happens, whether it’s a fight with a relative or something you said or didn’t say that’s haunting your head, nothing can be there when I’m painting or the painting will be ruined. And God knows some of this problems are not easy to deal with and some of them can be traced back to childhood and suddenly they come in right when you have to turn in a painting for the most important art fair project of your entire career. Thankfully my dear friend @jeandavidmalat was there for me to give me his support and I managed to get my sh*t together and after some three failed attempts, anguish crying, physical and mental exhaustion this baby came out. Remember it’s done in one single brushstroke, there’s no adding or subtracting, no editing, there’s also no planning either. Everything is played in the moment, right there and then and in a matter of seconds. The size is exhilarating, one has to step into the canvas in order to reach its four corners. The pressure is intense, everything is being played right there, everything . . . . . . . . . . . #santiagoparra #parra #zonamaco #zonamaco2020 #jdmalatgallery @zonamaco @jdmalatgallery @jeandavidmalat #artfair #art #contemporaryart #painting #contemporarypainting #abstractart #abstraction #artecontemporaneo #artecontemporanea #artist #contemporaryartist #mexico #mexicodf #London https://www.instagram.com/p/B8HNeWcHEJC/?igshid=3dxkt8utu6yy
