I spend all 1986 painting the big triptych Bullfighting. It is an oil painting of 570 x 200 cm, painting on canvas, currently exposed in the boardroom of the Local Council of Castellón. Confronting a so hackneyed issue of the Spanish painting (Goya, Zuloaga, Picasso and...
Exhibiting is always a special moment in the work of a painter. The painter, usually, works alone, thinking about what to say and developing the language and the appropriate technique for it. The receiver of the artwork is thought as an abstract being, still to be...
I cherish the project a long time ago: a big mural painting based on the most representative images of History that I have lived or, at least, attended. To do this, I have collected a lot of graphic material, I have done sketches as I...
Symphony by Samy Moussa, conducted by Kent Nagano and put on the stage by Moment Factory, in Montreal (reccording 31 May 2017, 53’ 40’’. Extract in the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV9N3Jalrho in 00:29) Barbed wire symphony, ongoing series by the painter Traver Calzada. Question. After listening to the concert...
As an exercice of reflection about painting, every genre, portrait, self-portrait, still life or landscape, it serves. In the end, the painter will consider the typic questions of all Art: what is, serves to what, its validity in a technological moment, the sense of the...
The celebration of the Last Supper of Jesus with the twelve apostles remains in a very important place in the Christian iconography. The last Supper of Leonardo Da Vinci, finished in 1497 to the church of Saint Mary of Grace of Milan, although the fast...
I have read the critic of the philosopher Julio García Caparrós about my painting The Pieta of barbed wires with the greatest interest. The full text can be found on his Facebook (commentary of the 8th august 2016). I cite some extracts: “In fact, my Pieta” says...
The study of Michel Foucault of the Meninas of Velazquez that analyses the complex game of riddles that it contains, rekindled the interest of artists and philosophers for the great work of art, nowadays considered as one of the top of the European baroque painting. By...
There are some pieces of evidence of self-portraits almost from the beginning of the history of art. The footprint of the hand of the artist contoured in the wall of a cave is yet a way to say us “I’m here, this is me”. In...
The fight is a 70s sculptural group, made with the usual procedure: molding in clay, molds, printed in polyester, bronze and fibre glass, etc. The photographies that go with this words illustrate the phases of his execution. The amazing thing came after. The following day to the...
