Alberto Delmonte

Thought Translates into Visual Thinking

Evidently, my work in general is a synthesis and consequence of enunciated thinking.

This can be seen in my paintings, which in sensitive and rational terms are a manifest search for an order that proposes to be a way of recognizing and pondering man’s conditions and capacity for harmony and equilibrium, in relating to their peers as well as with nature in a positive and peaceable manner.

Their colors and shapes generate sensitive parallels with the ceramics and weaving by the peoples of America. They have open spaces like those plotted in textile layouts as well differentiated zones (La Pampa: the non-cultural world, empty spaces recall the geographic context of the same name, and pallay, a Quechua term which means to gather, and represents the world of culture, with meaning). Or, in the case of ceramics, there are ample zones of silence, in counterpoint to the ornamental registers that complete those pieces.

The organization of planes and structures can be linked or associated with the stone walls raised in blocks fit together by contact that are typical of the Andean world’s civil and religious urbanism.

Finally, the plastic manner of thinking takes us back to the myths that enable us to renew ourselves and to perceive our surroundings. That is where the cosmogonic and agrarian myths involving man and the earth are present.

Human couples serve as a model or archetype of the act of creation (the symbols refer to them).

America provided opposites, one alongside the other. Good and evil, night and day, and so on, each and every one of the opposites that constitute nature. This polaroid gives rise to the search for equilibrium, so that the land might be inhabited.

This is why the meeting between masculine and feminine plays a role of opposites that will unite to complement one another. And their seminal connection will be similar to the laborer’s act during planting and harvest, prioritizing life itself in both cases, set as a mediator between the sacred and nature.

Translation: Tamara Stuby