Works by Arol
Through the play of light and shadow, focus and backlight, in an almost theatrical staging, the whole of Arol's work is rooted in a surreal, dreamlike, symbolic language that launches without filters and without reason, the images that he rescues from the recesses of the unconscious.
Characters as tender as disturbing, in isolated environments and represented in their own existence, create at times a personal mythology within this unconscious universe. Many of them with an innocent appearance, in a careful look, reveal to us that child, often wounded, that dwells in all of them. This immediate recognition provokes an interpretation that oscillates between creative sweetness and harmful power in a duality present in nature itself, as beautiful as it is destructive.
The aesthetic truth of his visual metaphors comes from an intimate truth, always attracted by the emotional world, by his curiosity and restlessness towards the personal universe that nests within us and that acts as a trigger for the work, as a spring, at the same time, of a cathartic process of its own internal transmutation.
Self-taught, he does not limit his creation to one technique or another. The itinerary of my production is, to a certain extent, atypical and inverse. He goes from a 100% digital work to his current experimentation with traditional techniques in painting, mainly in oils on wood and he takes the step to the three dimensions taking the characters of my universe to Art Toys, Sculpture Toys and sculptures.
Between pencils and Legos, it was clear to him that creativity was as necessary for him as breathing. As a teenager, surrounded by vinyls and guitars, he began studying graphic design and after receiving his degree in 1996, he experimented his first steps in advertising agencies in his city, until he founded his own visual communication studio. In 2003, in search of new challenges, he traveled to Spain where he has lived ever since and began to enjoy his professional career as a freelance art director and graphic designer. Although art has always been one of his great loves since he was a child, in this country he had the opportunity to focus more on artistic works such as illustration, working both for the international editorial area, as well as for the textile field, creating prints for various Spanish brands. Despite having flirted with digital art since the 90's, it was not until 2010 that he decided to develop as an artist using pop surrealism as a language and making his work 100% with a computer, until 2017 that he opens to the wonderful experience of painting in a traditional way, using mostly oil on wood, exhibiting in various galleries and art festivals nationally and internationally. In 2018 he took his first steps in customizing Art Toys, making unique pieces and later the limited edition of a sculpture toy, which led him to create in 2019 and 2020 his first sculptures in epoxy putty and later in polymer clay. His work is currently on display and in private collections on five continents.