Nacimiento und Muerte

2015 – Painting

blood and silver nitrate on two canvases, 100cm x 80cm

Description

Presented at Kunst im Schaufenster in Gesellschaftsstrasse 36, Bern, Switzerland on 01.06.2015 – 30.06.2015

Nacimiento” and “Muerte” (English: Birth and Death) are a pair of paintings created by non-conventional pictorial mediums.

Nacimiento” was painted solely with my own blood. In the middle is a section of a shopping cart where a young girl can be seen.

In “Muerte” a canvas was first primed with silver nitrate and afterwards a skull was painted in the middle with a solution of iron (II) sulphate and acetic acid. This solution develops the silver nitrate primer and allows images to be formed by this photographic process.