ARTURO MALLMANN

ARTIST STATEMENT

What is real and what is not has been a constant unanswered question throughout my life, It is present in everything that I do, feel and think, including my paintings. 

Scientists say that what we see with our eyes takes 13 milliseconds to be processed by the brain. That unimaginable amount of time is enough for the brain to filter and transform what we see. The brain only shows us a tiny part of what is out there and even that tiny part is transformed in order to make sense to humans.

 Lately I have been trying to explore reality from a variety of angles. I tried to get a glimpse of what is really out there by opening my eyes in a quick glimpse, trying to capture an image before the brain can make sense of it. Although what I see has already happened before I see it, I am able to get a glimpse of an incomplete, unfinished, sometimes senseless world. 

 Many of my latest paintings are based on these explorations of the mysterious world we live in, where everything is always changing, appearing and disappearing in the process of becoming, but never completing the process. The present moment, what so many of us trust the most, does not really exist in time, it never arrives nor departs, it is a constant transition towards the unpredictable…