Víctor Chacón

Landscapes somewhere between lived and dreamed in which, as he admits, starting from the observation and analysis of reality, he seeks a synthesis based on translation into geometric structures, and then, in his studio, observes what the stains suggest in order to move towards the finished work, which sometimes means taking away rather than adding. In these works the initial scheme often remains beneath the surface, with a few dark lines that, like a skeleton, support the framework that brings the balance and serenity characteristic of his output. (…) In Oscar Wilde’s words: “No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.” We might say, then, that all his work has a special serenity and restraint tending towards balance, stillness and order: landscapes seen through a very particular gaze, far from the usual ways of looking and far from conventional, in which that serenity is paradoxically also part of an emotional excitement.

From a text by José Carralero, 2018.
Painter and Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Madrid.