![]() It is a circle of secrets, a domestic scene of labyrinthic passages. Behind him, a lady facing us stares at the painting. His canvas, as in Velasquez' "Las Meninas", is counter faced and we cannot see what he is painting. The piece "The spectator # 1": a thoughtful seductive Venus posing for the painter with thick spectacles, only attentive to his work. The metarealistic ambit of the mitography of the artist is secured.Ĭ - The series "The painter and his Model": posts the eternal problem of the painter and his muse the creator, the physical reality and its transmutation to the canvas. The woman in each piece rests diagonally on a sofa, escorted by objects that do not seem to correspond: a bird flying, a TV set. Outstand her outrageous feminine parts, highly erotic and with great physical presence. Examples: "Resting Woman with Window" and "Woman Sitting".ī - Feminine Nudes: in the purest sensuality: such as "Nude with Plane": musculous and geometric, the frontal woman sitting on the couch, illogically holding a plane. These genres we find as linked to the Venus:Ī - Feminine stamps and portraits: heroines of a domestic world that prices and guards them. And in a symbolic sense, it is an Archetypal Venus, odalisque of modernity. ![]() ![]() It is an invention of counterparts in perfect cohabitation. Surpassing the Renaissance, the Baroque and the Venetian School, or the beginnings of Picasso or Matisse, the painter constructs, in the best-achieved eclecticism, the figure of a woman that is at the same time real and sketched, but also cloudy and mellow descriptive and emblematic but at the same time imaginative and chimerical. The axis is the feminine figure: a whole woman attesting to her autonomous strength. Sensuous bodies with contundent corporeity and grayish burnished palettes. Womanly figures, gelatinous and mellow brushes with corpulent volumes of unpredictable contortions. Among those, the "Self-portrait with an Angel": outside stands the painter palette and brush in his hand and very majestic, looking at us attentively in the heights, a feminine angel "flies" in the back, a parrot, a house and a half shown easel, conform a discontinued metarealistic rhetoric.Ī fifth level, "Assemblings", through a different technical mean, he achieves a new sign-object semeiology.įEMININE FIGURATIONS: ABOUT VENUS AND EROTICSĬEPEDA transforms the feminine anatomy into erotic entities. A magical-realistical tale that emphasizes the associative correspondence of the elements.Ī third level, the series "Marians of Austria" mother of the Infant Margarita, conceptualized by Cepeda.Ī fourth level, the "Self-portraits of the Painter". The outstanding piece "Portrait of Two Children with curtain as a Backdrop" a great ironic-dramatic theatricality Two children smile over a donkey toy as background, a landscape painting with strong warms framing them and a side view of an ambiguous personage to the left. Outstand "Self-portrait with Model" numbers 1, 2 and 5 with a strong erotic expressiveness.Ī second level, the series "From the Family Album", themes of the individual recollection. The series "EROTICS", in small format, he explores the concept of the body and its desires. As an example the piece, "…In the mountain of Sorte". The series "THE PAINTER AND HIS MODEL", emphasizes not only the sensuous splendor of the Venus but also the self-portrait of the artist included in the canvas. Born in Zulia of such a unique geography, the painter stamps in the canvas personal mythologies and collective memories, where fiction and reality interplay.ĭifferent production levels can be seen in the show: a first level, the VENUSES, where the erotic feminine figuration predominates feminine stamps and portraits and women in the nude. Since the fifties, this tendency inscribed a fundamental rupture with the worn out landscaping. Specially emphasizing the human condition, CEPEDA creates a new pictorial proposal within the "New Venezuelan Figurative".
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