Series “You Leave Me Petrified – Medusa Myth”. 2022 – Ongoing (in progress)
Life's fluctuations, sometimes wild, sometimes surprising, can lead us to states of disorientation that often prevent us from overcoming a break in our environment. The abrupt change from a position of power to one of exclusion can result in panic reactions that hinder any response and lead to disaster. The Myth of Medusa accurately adapts the harshness of collapse in the face of such sudden changes.
The series is developed on small square canvases using different techniques and materials. The varied mutilated heads allow for limitless creativity in terms of expressiveness, imagination, and creativity, with no restrictions except those concerning the theme and format.
Artist Bio
JAVIER DE LA HIGUERA – Madrid – July 1954
A visual artist by birth, whose professional life took place in the arid world of technology. Nevertheless, he constantly returned to his true calling for brief periods, during which he matured his pictorial personality until finally devoting his time to developing his inner world.
His professional path truly began in 2013, when he set up his first studio and dedicated himself exclusively to painting. By 2015, he had rapidly evolved and built a very distinctive personal world, emerging externally with his first solo exhibition that same year. His evolution continued with various group exhibitions, and in 2018 he became part of the artistic community of Zapadores Ciudad del Arte, where he moved his studio and began an intensive professional development.
In his work, he fuses the real with the incorporeal, transforming it through a personal filter. The abstract coexists with the real in a natural and fluid way. However, the real does not remain unaltered and free of impurities and sometimes even appears in the background or directly crossed out or deformed by lines and strokes that plunge it into the unreal like a non-human umbilical cord. He groups these paths into independent series that complement and evolve in such a way as to form small pieces of the perpetually unfinished puzzle of his pictorial universe. Through them, he aims to explore different ways of approaching artistic creation while maintaining his own personality reflected in the work.
In 2021, he held a new solo exhibition based on his most recent series to date, “Revisiting History”, marking a turning point in his career. Both the technique and the use of color, along with the inclusion of various trends within the same work, offer a new perspective on his evolution. From this moment, a new range of possibilities opens up, which we will be able to discover in the near future.
