CRÍTICAS Y ENSAYOS SOBRE MI TRABAJO
Abdías Méndez Robles: has assimilated, investigated and integrated an array of
holistic and universal knowledge
(escrito para la exposición Three Different Worlds, Galería McIninch, invitado por la Southern New Hampshire University, 2005)
Profa. Haydee Venegas
Crítica de arte AICA Puerto Rico
Professor of Art Historie - Escuela de Artes Plásticas
Write of books and art magazine.
Abdías Méndes-Robles is a banker, naturopath, and artist. His formal education was in finances, he holds a MBA and latter on became a MD in Naturopathy. Started painting over thirty years ago and his first exhibition was twenty years ago, last year he decided to go back to the academia and enrolled in the BFA program at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas in San Juan Puerto Rico. With the new obtain knowledge, his work is evolving and going through a real transformation. Now he is unifying his long life knowledge in the areas of spirituality, science, and that of the human kind realization, with the recently acquired techniques and theories. His palette has become richer and his search more
profound.
Profa. Haydee Venegas
Crítica de arte AICA Puerto Rico
Professor of Art Historie - Escuela de Artes Plásticas
Write of books and art magazine.
Abdías Méndes-Robles is a banker, naturopath, and artist. His formal education was in finances, he holds a MBA and latter on became a MD in Naturopathy. Started painting over thirty years ago and his first exhibition was twenty years ago, last year he decided to go back to the academia and enrolled in the BFA program at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas in San Juan Puerto Rico. With the new obtain knowledge, his work is evolving and going through a real transformation. Now he is unifying his long life knowledge in the areas of spirituality, science, and that of the human kind realization, with the recently acquired techniques and theories. His palette has become richer and his search more
profound.
Acción-Reacción | oil on canvas | 40” x 30” | 2000
For many years MéndezRobles has assimilated, investigated and integrated an array of holistic and universal knowledge; mainly those dealing with the Creation and intrinsic functioning of things. This knowledge is reflected in the titles of his works: Action Reaction, Seventh Heaven, and Profound Movement. During the previous years he created a personal language bases on his own symbols and signifiers. He bases his painting in his distinctive theory of the Four Elements. For MéndezRobles the entities that dwell in his compositions are the "Self' both the spiritual self as well as the highest guiding force. The zooming darts allow us to extend ourselves out of our self and in to unknown and imaginary worlds. While the black wholes, becomes the transition from the invented spaces or worlds, we know where they start, never where they end. In between there are countless possibilities. The last of his four elements is the spheres, the perfect figure, the one that turns us around and around creating pure energy; the atomic energy.
Séptimo cielo | acrylic on canvas | 36" x 24” | 2001
In the words created by MéndezRobles, the entities, the darts, the black wholes and the spheres, move the energy from one place to the other in a voyage to lyrical or empiric
spaces bursting with energy. They are works that speaks of the infinite, the inexorable outer space experiences but at the same time also touches our small inside worlds filled with dreams, thoughts and ideas. The bright tropical colors, turns this hallucinated spaces into areas to reflect upon life and at the same time anchored them to the Caribbean.
spaces bursting with energy. They are works that speaks of the infinite, the inexorable outer space experiences but at the same time also touches our small inside worlds filled with dreams, thoughts and ideas. The bright tropical colors, turns this hallucinated spaces into areas to reflect upon life and at the same time anchored them to the Caribbean.