Caio Fern, acrylic on canvas 2011 review

Every end of December I make a celebration posting about the whole production of painting of the year, it has been a tradition here in Mein Welt. But this year I decided to make different.
January 09 is my birthday of Christian baptism. It makes me really happy even having being Christian for almost 16 years to post the works God gave to me last year at the same day it completes one year of my baptism. This is a really special occasion.
More than happiness, it is a privilege to live with this task on my shoulders.
Hope you enjoy the paintings individual and the body work as a whole. The Bible says the one with real faith in Jesus must to be brave and a pioneer, not afraid and go always ahead. Well... He inspires me and I obey.
As Him my work is not going to be accepted and understood so easily in this world, people are going to say it is weird or wrong. They do.
But all I have produced, since my first painting 12 or 13 years ago was my tentative to go towards Him, imitating his examples by creating, being sincere and offering my best to the people. To anyone that approaches to it with opened heart, I don't judge.
Thank you. All my love to God in the name of Jesus Christ.
..... and thank you all that spent the last year supporting me with your presence here in my tiny land, Mein Welt.
Let's make a 2012 even better and God bless you all





I confess I’ve been a bit satisfied lately with my work ( of painting ).

I believe that I have condensed elements into a more focused way of expression.

The intention towards the works never was to represent anything, but to express the feelings generated during the process of the individual having to deal with itself.

I try to avoid the description of ideas, facts and concepts, what is hard to do when it is about figurative painting, and more, representational art….. as I don’t intend to represent anything, only to use the external light reflected by skin and its volumes on my own face as model for painting.

The real intention behind the works is producing expression by itself. Expression of individual issues behind the struggle for self development and self improvement, but making the artwork to become as independent as possible from the author on its feelings, life and destiny.

I always believed that pictorial values by its plots would be enough for all my needs. But during the whole year of 2011 I focused on composition of the image as a way to increase the conversation among an intention of anti-space, pictorial values, and the viewer.

The intention of denying the external space where the main figure is the only subject is still there and got a new and deeper level of intensity now. It opened the possibility to explore with more efficiency internal spaces found into the individual nature and its process self-discovering and fighting to become reformed, remodeled. Even so one of my earlier concerns was the doubt if exploring more internal spaces the image would naturally spread all over and lose its focus into itself. But I am glad to report that by a not so big effort it didn’t happen, as a matter of fact was the opposite, I have never been able to develop an image into itself as I’ve done lately.

I still have some issues to solve that haven’t made me totally satisfied and again for being able to reach what I need I will have to turn my attention to the improvement of the pictorial values always having in mind I can not lose the achievements obtained my the improvement of the composition.

The problem of the composition is creativity. I always saw creativity as an obstacle and diversion for the purest form of self expression. As I said , pictorial values should be able to deal with all my needs of expression and make the work be able to live by itself. But I confess the creativity demanded by the efforts for composing an image has given me a bigger offer for exploring internal territories and has made easier to deal with the image, maybe creativity is an escape from my main target. I don’t know if its is a phase or if it is another characteristic of my work’s nature that is coming to stay definitely. I say definitely because these characteristics aren’t new, you can observe then on the whole trajectory of my work with more emphasis on the years of 2001 and 2002. But I believe that on all the periods it has appeared in a more or less obvious way.

So in fact I didn’t produce anything really new on 2011, only improved or got more aware of characteristics I have denied for years or simply didn’t feel the necessity to work so hard on it giving the attention I think now it deserves





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On these works I intended to only make the main figure have to deal with itself in a way the space around isn't necessary to be present.
On my paintings over the years ( the last 12 years ) the space around the main figure painted on raw canvasses is denied but here it is totally excluded.
These characteristics are always happening for the same reason. To isolate the individual from the environment and make it be forced to only deal with itself.


















2011 has been a year where I only kept pushing harder what I was doing during 2010. Harder and more intense.
If 2010 was a year where I broke the "pure" Mein Welt aesthetic mixing it with the values of my earlier years and generating a new way to dig deeper what I have searched for the last 12 years, 2011 has been the moment where I take it all and focus on the main target narrowing into very personal view of the individual as spiritual and psychological being.
The relationship with the external world is only noticed by the way the matter reflects the material light and the effects it has under the psychological developing and movements.
...But , It has been one month or so that I don't paint, I feel I have lost even more control of this process I have never controlled anyway. I am Feeling that soon I will go back to studio but I have no idea of what is going to happen or what direction the work will want to take.
Hope you like these works.... at least we can say that the 2011 production so far can turn into an solo exhibition already. I feel lazy... but when I see what I've done , I am not so lazy.
thank you all that have supported and followed my work this year.