My name is Aníbal Torija. I began my artistic career as a formal
painter in the academy of fine arts. I could say there is nothing remarkable
exciting in the way I acquired my skills: to start by drawing and then get involve in painting. However along all my life I have been highly
passionated by the music and the emotions that each genre around the
world is able to evoke: several types of spatiality, joy, happiness,
melancholy, encouragement and anger are my reasons for seeking an
universal language in a canvas.
The painting is way I found to
translate the abstractions of my perception in nature: different
scenarios are taken to create a personal summary of sensations resulted
by the act of contemplation. I see my work as a sharp and expressive
taxidermy of contemporary madness: its order in colors, its sounds, its
self reason to be, depicted as an hybrid ecosystem with a trace of
primitivism, sorted by the translation of emotions in a random selection
of physical plans, rising as the wildness tide; as the madness breaks
out.