The Green Flash (Barrika July 10th 2023)

Title: The Green Flash (Barrika July 10th 2023)
Digital print on hahnemühle paper.
Size: 40 x 156 cm.
Edition 50 copies.
Signed and numbered with permanent marker on the back of the photograph. Certificate of authenticity signed by the artist is included.

The colour of the image is as it was captured. The light effect is real. It has not been manipulated.

The green flash, or green ray, is an atmospheric optical phenomenon that occurs shortly after sunset and shortly before moonrise, in which a green dot can be seen, usually for a second or two, above the position of the sun. It can also be seen as a green ray coming from the point where the sun has set. Green flashes are actually a group of phenomena that arise from different causes, some being more common than others.

The concept of green lightning was popularised in Jules Verne's 1882 novel The Green Ray, in which its colour is described as "[...] a green which no artist could ever obtain on his palette, a green of which neither the varied tints of vegetation nor the hues of the cleanest sea could ever produce an equal If there is a green in Paradise, it can only be of this shade, which is most certainly the true green of Hope!

Imanol Marrodán Bilbao 1964
An interdisciplinary creator and researcher, his work, among other activities, carries out critical work through different events related to art and contemporary thought as part of his personal creative project.The concept of the limit, inspired by the idea of the ancient Roman "limes" cited by Eugenio Trias as a metaphor for a civilised, rationally controlled knowledge, is the starting point for a concept of limit understood not as the end of something but as a device for the "beginning" of growth and evolution. This idea of the search and exploration of the unknown and of personal identity related to natural processes and rhythms is the central theme of Imanol Marrodán's work. The aim is to create an ever wider Atlas of meanings with different meanings. We propose the construction of a metalanguage that encompasses the different stages and experiences lived as mental structures formed metaphorically by Euclidean geometries and at the same time also by structures of fractal and intuitive organic thought. It is the very shaping process of an experience that shares a socio-political habitat in an industrial, materialistic, technological and artificial world, as opposed to a natural environment intimately linked to the laws of the universe, which we hardly know but which we still feel and intuit. He has exhibited in countries such as the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Portugal, Belgium, Korea, Argentina, Chile, Switzerland and the United States. His work has been shown at international contemporary art fairs such as ARCO, VALENCIA ART, ARTE SANTANDER and DFOTO (Spain), ART COLOGNE and KUNST KÖLN (Germany), KIAF (Seoul, Korea), ArteBA (Buenos Aires, Argentina), BALELATINA (Basel, Switzerland)... etc...