Art Exhibitions

1 July 2020

Tarazona's work displays a Romantic sensibility. A main feature of  Romanticism is the notion of and desire for another world (transcendence). Many Romantic works reveal an engagement with the unknown or a void, which links to transcendence; a sense of duality (here and there, different worlds, evident in the The Way and Desire/Deseos works, for instance); and a lone travelling figure in the unknown, such as forest,  a wilderness or a landscape (evident in Tarazona's Don Juan figure). The Romantic spirit in the artist's work is intertwined with Spanish Expressionism and gushing emotional colour. A sense of  hybrid identity is continued in the Africanness that seeps through in the use of raw materials such as sticks, broken glass, metal and black pigment.