Welcome to the Help 22 Collection!;
It is a tribute to creativity, the fragility of being and friendship.
Help is a collection of works created on post-it notes and note paper, born as a tribute to those condemned by society because of their differences with the majority. Those people who paid (and do pay) high prices for trying to develop their talents and individuality in a society that moves at a different pace.
These works tell the stories of how friendship sustained and sustains them, of those who showed and show understanding, support and compassion in a world that remains fundamentally inhumane.
For those for whom pain, mistreatment, violence, cruelty and anguish led to suicide or abandonment of themselves and the world ; and for those who fall into the clutches of depression and/or drugs because their life is unbearable.
In 2017 at the Museo del Carmen in Valencia, I participated, together with 242 artists, in the commemorative exhibition of the V anniversary of the artistic movement "I Pòsquin You" . This movement, created by Maria Carballo , offers an avant-garde approach to art, turning the creation support into a post-it and making it more affordable. Seeing the possibilities that working my techniques in this format offered me, I decided to create the collection to pay these tributes in a year as special as 2018 was for me, since I turned 50; age at which most of the great artists did not live.
It was a complex personal moment, but also one of celebration, in which, due to personal and family circumstances, I could only be there and work from home. For this reason, Help was a grateful tribute to my friends , since they are the ones who have kept me whole, supported and animated in the moments in which my fragility evidenced the tear of my soul. And they are the ones who were taking and showing my works around the world.
After the very harsh and heartbreaking times of the pandemic and confinement and seeing the serious consequences that this has had on society and people, seeing how depression, anxiety have increased exponentially and finally, art has been the greatest consolation , and after the war in Ukraine and in this season when the cold arrives and energy sources rise along with inflation, I can only add to continue feeding the Magic of Christmas and the desire to give and treat yourself to something special regardless of the purchasing power of people who want to buy some of my works, for this reason I have decided to create a new Help collection, which you have available in the Store, my first online store.
Each work in this collection is unique , and is worked in one of the different techniques that I use to express my feelings. All of them see the light without having erased or rectified a feature or a line.
The ancient and pure mineral pigments that they gave me, worked in Japanese gouache, in encaustics with beeswax, with natural latex and spatulas; oil, mixed with olive oil ; to the fatty tempera, when I bind them with egg ; and the drawing, with sanguine and graphite. These are the techniques used to create the thumbnails on note paper or post-its in 9x9 cm and 7.5x7.5 cm formats.
Help has been spreading around the world from Singapore to Los Angeles. It has arrived in Paris (getting the thorn out of that exhibition that I couldn't do due to the car accident I suffered), Hamburg, Mexico, Madrid, Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca, Logroño, Palencia, Rimini, Vienna, London, Zurich, USA ...and it keeps growing...
Help is also in my house, in my beloved land of Valencia : Vinaròs, Benicarló, Peñíscola, Castellón and Valencia exhibit some of these works, now permanently in private collections.
The works are priced at 20 euros/u, with a special 2x1 Christmas and Epiphany promotion, and they can arrive anywhere in the world by courier, in gift packaging specially designed for them and ready to be framed. the first 96 works are already available in the store.
I will go on showing the faces, lives and works of those to whom I sincerely offer this grateful tribute. Dante, Rachmaninov, Leonardo, Camile Claudel, Klimt, Tchaikovsky, Berthe Morisot, Balzac, Sorolla, Renoir, Modigliani, Monet, Sonia Delaunay, Van Gogh, Tomas Mann, Touluse-Lautrec, Bosch, El Greco, Velázquez, Cervantes, Shakespeare , Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, Clara Wieck, Schumann, Lili Elbe and Frida Kalho are some of them and the list will undoubtedly continue to grow.
Help is my way of thanking you all for accompanying me on the path of creativity and art.
This is going to be my last individual post-it collection, but I'll keep creating new miniatures!
Thank you very much for joining me and joining Help!