Games

For a long time I felt the need to come out in my paintings, these dramas that I staged, directed, designed, lit -I wanted to feel what the actors, my models, felt. To be in the painting and outside it, to come upon myself as one does framed in a shop window or an unexpected mirror -that is how others see you, not how you show yourself to others, always behind the mask of authorship. Yet at the same time, I dreaded this. One day male models didn't show up for a session. I had to take their place. I examined my role, my script, my life. I showed my face; I recognized myself. The Games is the result of this experiment. In subsequent sessions, I used as models friends and collaborators -accomplices -Jose Luis and Maria, fearing I wouldn't like what developed, a strange and possibly unsettling juxtaposition of life options. I also painted my models, Concha and Cristina, sometimes independently and sometimes with myself as a fellow actor. And so The Games is about role-playing, but in the drama that life writes for us; the coincidences, fluctuations, instincts, the unconscious gestures, the dreams and the reality. The magic stage of life, in which you must play all roles -actor, director, audience -with God in mind. Ramón Lombarte august 1996

Juegos? Acrylic on canvas 11 x 22"

Gallinita ciega Acrylic on canvas 9 x 14"

No me apuntes Acrylic on canvas 9 x 14"

Me has cogido Acrylic on canvas 14 x 9"

Sin trampas Acrylic on canvas 26 x 38"

Polis & Ladrones Acrylic on canvas 16 x 22"