Luis Rocca Brito (Caripito, Venezuela, 1964) is a painter with a prominent presence in the generation of Venezuelan artists from the eighties, with a consistent training obtained at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas Eloy Palacios in Maturín, at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas Cristóbal Rojas in Caracas and at the Instituto Pedagógico.

The work of this artist has a capital orientation in the landscape that he has maintained throughout his career, as well as the incessant quality of having consolidated an investigative axis related to the formal elements always applied to this subject. From a figurative landscape, full of vegetation and fauna, especially birds, made in the eighties and nineties, it goes through different phases in which that same landscape loses its realistic and expressionist representation to gradually assemble a new reality of autonomous forms.

As of 2000, in his conceptual formulations the fields of color and chromatic atmospheres appear, while the line that was the initial resource of his language, —because of the solid training he had in drawing—, continues to have a notable presence. By decomposing or synthesizing the forms, he creates his own systems of representation. Usually works in series. The ones that we present in this collection of Arte Original are called Entramados y Secciones. According to the artist Entramados it is “a series where the fields of color are present. I find harmony in the line-color simultaneity, it is a perception that transmits enclosure of spaces through the frames, but at the same time opens visual spaces of chromatic atmospheres ”. In Secciones “the division of the pictorial space becomes important, there geometric shapes share, achieving dynamism both in their distribution and in the framework produced by a quick, linear brushstroke that confers sectioning so that you can visualize the geometric shapes”. He takes the forms to an extreme of synthesis until he achieves organic and geometric abstract figures of free disposition. But it is pertinent to clarify that Rocca Brito does not detach himself from the landscape, since it continues to be an ‘imaginary landscape’ for him.

Anny Bello