Gallery - Period 2006

The development in Dussan’s work is characterized by a new exploration of colour and line on traditional supports of wood and cloth. These works are largely motivated by memories, both personal and collective, the roots of Latin America, the Colombian Caribbean and especially the beautiful Cartagena of the Indies and the bizarre story of the diverse and violent cultural clashes which took place there, that have determined it’s present state.

Dussan’s work thrives on diverse sensations and the sensuality of movement, such as the poetry of dance or that of the multitudes displaced by war. Although the subject matter focuses towards his Colombian roots, pictorially it is an experimentation based on his understanding of art history that creates confrontation and constant education.

The grotesque and fantasy world of Hieronymus Bosch, the collective scenes by Pietre Brueghel, the organic and living lines of Leonardo Da Vinci, the colour and spatial compositions of Giambattista Tiepolo, atmosphere and luminescence of Rembrandt van Rijn’s characters. The human condition depicted by Braulio José Goya, the light of William Turner and the eroticism and sensuality of Egon Schiele.

His work is developed with a “Dionysus-Apollo” dynamic. Dionysus veers toward the irrational and unconscious form of expression, whilst Apollo leans toward the rationality of academic drawing and the study of the human figure, with purification of the line and form.

In this way the artist’s work is not completely explicit or narrative, but leaves space for the viewers imagination, generating fluidity and motion with spontaneous expression and precise drawing.

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