José Merchán
He is an artist (Venezuela 1969) who presents a work of free abstraction, with a quality of very careful elaboration. It is a free abstraction of surfaces, which sometimes resemble foliage, crumpled papers, floors, vegetation. In its execution there is a trompe l’oeil (eye trap) because the visual impression is as if it were surfaces with volume. This effect is achieved with a careful use of lighting that allows us to optically perceive valuations of different textures. Color is another of the elements that identifies his work because he usually uses few colors in a wide range of tones with subtle harmonic combinations. His works with formats larger than one meter, broaden the perception of the visual effect. Through pictorial resources, he presents a micro world of transformed natural surfaces.
