Set of 5 paintings. From The Light series, 2021

Jose Ricardo Contreras Gonzalez  

Set of 5 paintings, 2021 by Jose Ricardo Contreras González. From The Light series.

Overall size: 60 H cm. x 120 W cm. Individual size: 30 H cm. x 40 W cm. Mounted on a stretcher. Signed on verso 1. The Light 19 2. The Light 23 3. The Light 9 4. The Light 10 5. The Light 13 The light (2018 - 2022)

This series of pieces is the result of an investigation into the use of light as a tool for the representation of reality and image creation. Starting in the 40s, the work of the artist Edward Hopper took significant recognition that led to becoming a benchmark for cinematographers in everyone, especially because of their relationship in film noir and the influence exercised by the painter in the work of filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock, Jim Jarmusch, Martin Scorsese, and Wim Wender.

Hopper was inspired by the cinema to create his paintings and the cinema became inspired by Hopper.

The images that the series represents were taken from the film and behind the scenes of the film "Shirley Vision of Reality" by 2013 by the Austrian director Gustav Deutsch, in an exercise that I seek to literally recreate a series of paintings by Hopper and with they narrate the story of three decades beginning in North America from the 30s and going until the 60s. The scenes depicted in the film are interior images inhabited by solitary people, who relate to the outside through the entrances of light and sound, images that They speak of a world that was, but that resembles the intermittent state of simulation and quarantine of the contemporary world.