In Matamor, a painter who draws the candlelit atmosphere of the Galician beaches into his salon

About the interpretation of las sun pools on the beaches of Gallegas – and the ephemeral “green light” that culminates the event and which Éric Rohmer captured in his film of the same name – we weave again, a seemingly simple motifbut internally complete; a question of mathematics that accompanied the history of abstract painting.

Just as Giorgio Morandi repeatedly painted the same still life, other artists such as Alex Katz, Jasper Johns and Antonio Saura explored the same motif for decades. The methodology of work, which is inscribed in “tautological” art, This urgent repetition of the gesture – which brings minimal changes with each attempt, with each squeeze– we are limited to the Heraclitean philosophy of reality.

That “we never swim in the same river twice” extends into the story here: never miss the same picture twice. Su insistence means one thing a desire, an obsession, and a desire that can never be satisfied. A meta-image ring, very in tune with the nature of colors and painting tools such as canvases, which often work on the main surface in neutral tones.

hay, ademási, spiritual quest in your work; a religious lama – so I can’t decide -. The search for the church through the image is an ancient, rocky, cavernous theme, but it also responds to a contemporary impulse: we think of Rosalía, of Alauda Ruiz de Azú, and the wave of the return of religion. Matamoro paints a transcendental—mystical, quizzical—exploration that involves contemplation and attention to the smallest details of everyday life.

As Vasili Kandinski said, “White is deep, absolute silence, full of possibilities” and these possibilities are explored by this artist. Paint air and light, physical realities in a colorless appearance, but containing the entire chromatic spectrum that our retinas are capable of distinguishing, which is what this painter of atmospheres and reflections does when he composes fluorescent, medium-sized sparkles between Rothko’s color blocks and the cloudy atmospheres of William Turner’s sea storms.

The image of Matamoro is written in their tradition painters of colored fieldsa painter in the field of paint, and draws a broad artistic path from his licentiate in fine arts – in the field of painting and intaglio engraving – at the Complutense University of Madrid.

At the end of his first residency in New York with a Fulbright award, he began his nineties at the Spanish Academy in Rome. From the point of view of slow, minimal painting, in which the exploration of colors has an infinite number of pages and lines, it is enough to decant the work contained, exquisite, delicate, full of sensitivity and beauty. A shadow that shines without darkness.