Sin título

Sin Título, a mixed-media painting aptly described as a landscape of light, by Uruguayan artist Arturo Mallmann. Known for his mixed-media paintings, Mallmann uses materials like fragments of eighteenth-century doors to evoke a dream-like, luminous journey through space. Combining the distinct technique, “…applying innumerable coats of translucent acrylic paint between thick coats of resin,” Mallmann’s Sin Título achieves a hazy, ephemeral quality. The soft white-ochre light radiating outward from the center—specifically, the area of transition where the lightest colors first begin receding into depths of the composition’s bottom half—anchors perspective, reinforced by Mallmann’s subtle inclusion of a ground line extending across the horizon. This technique produces a work of art best enjoyed piece upon which to meditate. In an artist statement, Mallmann wrote, “To me that thick foggy atmosphere where we constantly wonder around and are unable to trespass, represents the barrier beyond which lie the answers to those questions that we so frequently pose to ourselves and to the universe, questions about our unknown origins and the meaning of our existence.”