ABOUT THE WORK

There is nobody in the graphic arts more inventive and enterprising when it comes to experimental techniques and new concepts. Color is restrained to dark monochrome blues, with hints of yellow and ochre. The overlapping layers of blues gestural applied to the canvas, produce a delicately intricate blend of the subtlest blues and ochres imaginable. With this particular effect, the artist is able to achieve darkly ethereal effects or luminous passages in the thin gestural layers of color from the surface to increasing depths. The artist presents the layers of blues as an objective phenomenon, although he does not deny their subjective dimension, for such a subtle art may be expressive of highly nuances states of feeling. The work invites the viewer to mentally review the painting process as he adds layer by layer like thin veils of illusion until one appreciates the image in depth. Olazo has often the basic layering process by superimposing quick, gestural strokes to stimulate the surface. The total effect is one of quiet sumptuousness and delicate elegance.