Adrián Doura

Acting Out On Drives

Adrian Doura — 2012-03-01T12:14:00Z

This series of paintings explores the nature of individuals acting on their drives, following impulses often unconsciously motivated in their violence.
The acts I depict in these canvases interpret crimes we are familiar with from mythology, literature and history, acts which reveal the aggressivity tragically inherent at all times in the human condition. As the psychoanalyst J.-B. Pontalis writes (in “Un jour, le crime”): « today's tabloid news combines personal history, the singular factors (...)

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Others

Adrian Doura — 2011-05-09T14:38:42Z

This section includes scenes which blend nature and urban landscapes, interior and outdoors scenes, where human presence is integrated into its environment.

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Landscapes

Indétendance - F Pautonnier — 2010-11-30T09:36:49Z

In front of nature, the affirmation of vastness, the brutal chromatic
transitions of sunsets, the power of elements, painting captures
the lightness of the waving air around us in this subtle moments.
The clouds that pass by transforming themselves, this immense water, changing, under the infinite sky, the result of a breeze, the wind, the stubborn presence of clouds of earth, those anchored islands, the reflected light, the horizon and vertiginous perspectives, the scale free of measures, (...)

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Urban landscapes

Indétendance - F Pautonnier — 2010-11-29T19:22:49Z

From the ideal cities of the Renaissance to satellite images of our contemporary cities, the urban landscape continues to be a shared subject by visual arts, humanities and metaphysics.
A "beautiful view" of the city questions the perception of urban environment. The magma of buildings, streets, bridges, highways, parks, monuments, lighting, appears as a jagged layered crust grafted onto the surface of the earth.
These views are plunging an entry into the jungle of everyday city life.
This (...)

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