Cherub,
2023,
Oil on linen, 30 x 33 cm
The painter, for the first time, approaches the world of nature and the exterior landscape; he builds an ambiguous space, not exempt from a certain theatricality.
The selection of images that serve as a starting point for Nacho's paintings provides fundamental data for a better understanding of the story that the painting offers us. For this series of paintings the artist has used archival images documenting the history of the great taxidermists and fragments taken from reproductions of paintings by the French artist Henri Rousseau. The taxidermists built the dioramas that today "illustrate" the different sections and rooms of Natural History museums. Rousseau, for his part, painted numerous pictures of exotic jungles of exuberant vegetation, without ever having left France. He documented himself by visiting the botanical garden of the Museum of Natural Sciences in Paris or with any scientific publication that fell into his hands.