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ABOUT THE WORK

The still life and landscape works of the revered visual artist Juvenal Sansó are undoubtedly in a league of their own. His personal inclinations towards a much more figurative form of expression lead him to create his own brand of surrealism that blends together aspects of realism and lyricism. Thus like the abstract impressionism of his earlier experimentations during his aesthetic formation in the mid 1950s, Sansó painted from the unconscious, but unlike abstract expressionism, the physical presence which he painted transcended to the sublime. Sansó’s art has been described as belonging to a style of “poetic surrealism.” This is due to the artist’s predilection for solitary landscapes and a peculiar kind of vegetation, botanically speaking. Sansó, though he painted with a painstaking exactness, his surreal take on nature nevertheless used his surreal idioms as visual elements to a wider conception of nature, the nature of poetry and of imaginative inspiration. This particular piece features an unusual subject matter for the veteran auteur; bamboo. Though his treatment is fairly faithful to the real-life aspects of the plant, Sansó’s poetic inflections can be seen throughout his subject’s details. From its peculiar arrangement of leaves, to the odd way the bamboo’s shape is portrayed, Sansó’s creative spirit is undoubtedly present even in his most mundane outings.