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This rough, slow
and patient work done through multiple stages and infinite variations
have culminated in a bright and eloquent language that arises from his
recent works. These works of a dense and vibrant form have blended
with content to form a solid core. The smooth polish of every detail
largely accounts for its radiant glow, as it provides the Psalms and
other series with the magic aura yearned for by the painter. Thus,
Gerardo Bravo has been developing his own language throughout the
major stages of his career. At each stage, he observes and reflects
the various qualities of the materials, as he handles them and
provides them with a rhythm in order to express ideas and sentiments
in line with his fundamental pursuit of unraveling the primary and
transcendent things. In this context, we need to discuss Bravo´ s work
based on a creative principle that expands itself freely, and without
following any mottos, as it evolves within the coordinates of a time
and space that is directed by him. To be sure, this is why Bravo
considers himself in a way a self-directed artist, and has written a
paper to expand on his view about what he calls “calligraphic
privateness,” where the term “privateness” derives from the quality or
state of being private, individual or own. Also from its inception,
Bravo´ s work is aesthetics of semiotics that lends itself to free
interpretation by the observer, as it accommodates both the
affirmation of the positive and the dilemma of non-existence Sign,
color, and structure all combine with the artful mastery of his recent
works to produce symbolic icons of exciting reading, and beautiful and
terse visual effects. In the syntax of this iconology there are no
constant or obsessive themes; it is perhaps just the symbolic nature
of the unknown that may be found in the expected answer to the enigma
or certainty or hope that makes Gerardo Bravo´ s aesthetics so
valuable and fascinating. For now, reading his
works at various levels from surface to depth, from top to bottom,
from west to east, from right to left or from the proposed perspective
of the beholder, his art gives you an insight into what this artist
will still be pursuing – his search towards the transcendent and the
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