As we well stated in the last installment, the Caribbean space has been punctual for the permanence of surrealism, in addition to the marvelous reality that has also had a primal presence, applied mainly to literature. However, given that art is also a mode of expression through images, the discourse that emerges from its interpretation fits well within the characterization that Alejo Carpentier took care of naming everything unusual and astonishing circumscribed to the universe of those who is the receiving subject of the stimulus.
As Carpentier rightly exposes in “The kingdom of this world”, “… the marvelous begins to be so in an unequivocal way when it arises from an unexpected alteration of reality, (the miracle)”. What is perceptible in the transformations of the subject and the object in the work of Iván Tovar, who, following the genius of “El siglo de las luces”, reveals a privileged revelation of the environment “of an unusual or singularly favorable illumination of the inadvertent riches of reality… perceived with particular intensity by virtue of the exaltation of the spirit that leads it to a mode of ‘limit state’”.
Thus, through Tovar’s production, we have surrealism as a means of expression, skillfully assimilated and which generated an autonomous and completely recognizable mode of representation. Iván was a master in the application of color and, in general, in technique. The academy was always part of his outfit, which meant that his expressions were always more polished and real within the unreal.
It is a fact that the discourse that emerges from his creations connects with the wonderful real, and it is very likely that in the process, this interpretation comes from the influence received from the literature of his time, especially from the movement of “La Poesía Surprised”. ” In Santo Domingo. This is so, due to the fact that Tovar was a disciple and friend of two of his greatest exponents, the poet Franklin Mieses Burgos and the painter and poet Gilberto Hernández Ortega. he will continue
The entrance Tovar|Surrealism Alive XLIV was first published on newspaper the caribbean.
