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Dussan’s inspiration revolves around the human forma s the fundamental expression of life, our relations with others and the unavoidable condition of our mortality. The body through time and time lived through the body. Ever changing and diverse, dynamic and impermanent.

His aesthetic goes beyond western stereotypes, focusing on the plurality of the human race and the infinite ethnic combinations. The body of pleasure and joy, pain and suffering. The body young and aged, serene and grotesque.

TO DRAW THE LIVING LINES AND LIVE THE LINES DRAWN.

“Throughout time drawing and sketching has generally been considered the groundwork which supports the visual arts. I however see it as the conclusion, even though at the same time it is the motor of my work. Where most painters apply colour to their lines, I work on the contrary. I draw on colour.

The lines that I see in the moving body create instantaneous imprints in my mind. Everything is lines, energetic expressions that I relate directly to our passage through life.

The philosophies of Heraclites and Buddha capture this idea. Everything is changeable and all is movement. Whether our internal awareness propels us to leave a mark on our surroundings or that, the environment leaves its mark on all things and us.

I am especially interested in organic forms, which invite the purity of a single line, loose and dynamic, where the roundness and intensity is so varied.

I find that painting and drawing, in comparison to sculpture, can often seem static. I am not attracted to the idea of reality by way of freeze frames, but to capture and depict the motion, the energy of reality.

I want not only to transmit the sensation of movement, but also that my works emit a life from within. Neither does it interest me to remain in the “frozen” representation of the human body but to express the “felt” body. This is the challenge of my constant experimentation.”

Rafael Dussan

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