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Dis Berlín
(Ciria, Soria, 1959)
El mirador
1985
acrylic on canvas
73 x 100 cm
Inv. no. 1079
BBVA Collection Spain
Born in Soria and educated in Zaragoza, Dis Berlin came to fame in the 1980s in Madrid. In the central years of that decade he created a body of work that has been called his “blue period.” This is the phase from which these two paintings belong. In them, his Fauve roots are visible in the blue colouring that confers a nostalgic and melancholic air to the scenes represented.
A precursor of the Spanish neo-metaphysical movement, Dis Berlin was included, together with other artists, like Ángel Mateo Charris, in the group show
El retorno del hijo pródigo
held in Sala Buades (1991). The idea of travelling is recurrent in Dis Berlin’s work. In consonance with the metaphysical movement however, it is a journey that transcends the physical nature of what he depicts in his paintings.
In this work the artist depicts a group of people who have stopped on the promenade to observe what seems to be a regatta in the large expanse of the sea. The artist’s signature blue tones coupled with the softness of the pastel shades shroud the work in an air of nostalgia and exoticism which is nevertheless not exempt from realism.
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