Colors Power! – Delightful mix by Yago Hortal – Be ▲rtist

Colors Power! – Delightful mix by Yago Hortal

“Precisely when the genetic technologies triumph, the liberal globalization and human rights, the postmodern label has exhausted its capacity to express the world which promotes it”.

Gilles Lipovetsky / Sebastien Charles

Vehemently captivating in his use of colour, heirs to the sumptuousness of the expressionist gesture and driven by an evocative passion is not without a refreshing breath of air, the uplifting vital energy of the paintings by Yago Hortal is bursting into the international contemporary art scene with a resounding force which can only be seen on rare occasions.

colors power! – delightful mix by Yago Hortal

This fresh air, this burning flame, this “hyperpantone” of his, evokes the kind of visual fulfilment like those paintings which trace the history of modern art on the walls of museums throughout the world.

Gestural abstractions, radical colour, a frenzied and at the same time, classical “only painting”, were configuring a very potent antidote to this “liquid art” of today where “the work”, is seen as a closed whole or as a completely autonomous configuration, had lost its place.

*Review by Pilar Ribal, “The vehement painting of Yago Hortal”