From cycle Corrida Print

This painting belongs to my cycle titled "Corrida" This cycle has a very personal touch. As a six-year-old child I had a very serious accident and then, as an artist, I could not for many years use a red colour in my paintings. Corrida, in relation to this very traumatic experience has, in consequence, become a field of my interest and is, in a way, a duel between the subject and the colour of my paintings. By this complex message involving the past, the pain and the artistic form I try to evoke a different meaning than that of the previous works on this subject. My effort is to define the event within a metaphysical perspective. The cycle also includes works that are a conscious discussion with artists for whom Corrida was too an inspiration, and the subject of their works. My guiding idea was: ‘A bull does not think but is thought provoking.’