Armando Rabadan

What inspires you?

Images are in our life to such an extent that we have become images, and they are unreal. We subjected them to computer processing, we retouch and transform them so that they are part of the digital reality. What is really important about images is their dynamic content, their ability to function as a n actionable image and blend into other images.

Describe your creative process.

The surface of the painting has his own life, it is an environment where I empathize. Everything that happens on the canvas overlaps and that sediment is partially visible. I find it interesting because I do not do it with a specific purpose, but rather it adapts to the ideas that arise later on, just as change affects the places. The origin of my paintings goes back to an idea that over time has adapted to a later one, painting have the same capacity to adapt as a city does.

What are 3 words that best describe your work?

Process, color, learning

Who are some artists that have influenced your work?

Luis Gordillo, Anselm Kiefer, Georg baselitz, Jorge Galindo, Cecily Brown, Willem de Kooning

What is the most important tool when creating your work?

My computer where I create the compositions and also the projector.

What is the best piece of advice you have been given?

Do what you like

Where do you go for inspiration?

Images that give me more inspiration these days are coming from ancient tapestry and tilewrok. Also I have an extense archive of pictures on my laptop, with pictures of my friends, internet, analog pictures etc. Each imagen can find their painting when it is needed to fit a composition. It is the meaning of my works; process.