The Forest Submits and the Sunlight Retreats

The lyrical quality of the paintings may owe a great deal to Alvaro's interest in poetry, literature and music. Certain patterns of paint and color across the canvas recall the pages of sheet music; classical structures that rise and fall in cyclical form painted over fields of jazz-inspired random order. Yet, spontaneity is not lost despite his intellectual concerns.

Alvaro Gomez Ulloa inserts himself squarely into the milieu of contemporary art. He derives lessons from master painters of earlier generations and reinvents painting to suit his situation in Costa Rica. Alvaro addresses political, cultural and spiritual concerns, interweaving a matrix of meanings to a unified whole and offers in the end, a work that inspires as well as warns, without sacrificing aesthetics. Evidently, as suggested by de Szyszlo (?every great art has roots) we are in the presence of a great artist.

 

Carlos Rojas