Japanese V, 2025
Eugenio Montoro Aybar  

Fine Art Drawings : pencil, ballpoint pen · 12.5 x 20 x 1 cm 4.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch

€970 970 €

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Fine Art Drawings : Unique artwork

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12.5 x 20 x 1 cm 4.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch Height x Width x Depth

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The artwork "Japoneses V" carries forward the conceptual trajectory of the final section: "Act III. The Code of the Ballpoint Drawings (The Secret Messages)". Within the narrative design of the exhibition, this drawing introduces the themes of healing from trauma, finding emotional sanctuary, and cultivating fragile intimacy in defiance of external hostility.

The Material Ground: The European Banknote as a Space of Exile

Departing from , which employed an American dollar bill, this drawing utilizes an authentic vintage Dutch banknote of 10 guilders (, Amsterdam issue, 1968, featuring an engraved portrait of Frans Hals):

Geographical Transition: Introducing a European currency shifts the setting away from the claustrophobic alleys of Tokyo, relocating the drama into the realm of migration, displacement, or flight toward a European city (Delft).

Currency and Redemption: While sustaining the overarching inquiry into bodily commodification and fiscal value, the piece inverts its meaning: the currency ceases to act as an inventory tag on human flesh, becoming instead a tangible relic of transit, a ticket of escape, or proof of an attempt to break free from the criminal underworld.

Compositional Analysis and Visual Structure

Emma's Likeness (Intellectual Vulnerability): Anchoring the right side is the portrait of a young woman wearing contemporary dark-framed glasses. Her appearance marks a clean break from ritualized geisha styling: an unpretentious updo, natural skin free of cosmetic masks, and an attentive, serene gaze. The eyeglasses signify lucidity, critical distance, and a refusal of forced sensualization.

The Stray Cat (Kindred Vulnerability): To the left, rendered with fine anatomical sensitivity and dense ballpoint cross-hatching, rests a striped cat with arresting emerald-green eyes. The feline archetype evokes urban solitude, homelessness, and quiet attunement to shared fragility.

The Ballpoint Pen Idiom: The delicate interplay of ink and graphite integrates with the intricate guilloché patterns and security engravings of the note. The vibrant linework delivers the confidential immediacy of a personal diary entry or an evidentiary document.

English Inscription: The Parable of Two Wounded Souls

Replacing Japanese script, the remaining space is claimed by handwritten English text inscribed in vibrant green across the engraved surface:

The Inscribed Text:

Conceptual Resonance: The passage aligns with the central tenets of Act III regarding recovery from domestic violence and coercive control (). Deliverance becomes reciprocal: the protagonist recovers her own agency and capacity for trust precisely by extending shelter to another defenseless creature.

Role Within the Exhibition Arc

From Terror to Sanctuary: In contrast to the overt anguish of and the impending abduction documented in , this work introduces an essential psychological pause—a restorative threshold of quietude and emotional healing.

Resilience Beyond Rupture: The piece confirms that the ballpoint code operates not merely as a forensic record of criminal violence, but as an intimate chronicle of spiritual endurance through which fractured lives reclaim dignity and step back into the light.

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Women

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Eugenio Montoro Aybar, Japanese V
Spain  • 1974

Presentation

Eugenio Montoro Aybar (born 1974 in Granada, Spain, where he currently resides and works) is a distinguished visual artist, researcher, and educator holding a PhD in Fine Arts from the University of Granada, specializing in pictorial techniques and artistic procedures. Throughout his established career, he has combined rigorous academic research and fine art painting with the direction of monumental mural projects and heritage conservation initiatives on both national and international stages.

Among his prominent monumental achievements is the direction and coordination of the mural and decorative paintings for the full-scale replica of the Alhambra of Granada at the Al-Yamamah Royal Palace in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), commissioned by King Fahd bin Abdulaziz. In Spain, he has led prestigious ecclesiastical restorations, including the monumental high altars of the Basilica of Saint Michael the Archangel and the Basilica of Saint Andrew in Granada, as well as the mural decorations of the Basilica of Lillo in Toledo.

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