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Elisabeth Wild, Akira Ikezoe,
Jesús “Bubu” Negrón, Radamés “Juni” Figueroa

NADA Miami 2014

Group Exhibition: Beyond the Mexique Bay
Booth 1.05
Miami, FL, USA.

“I tried to do some painting in the woods behind the hotel, but soon gave up in despair. The hot sun and the insects were too much for me. Here, at Antigua, I felt more than ordinarily incompetent. The problem was fundamentally the same as that which had confronted, and defeated, me so often in Provence: how to render a brilliantly coloured landscape in equivalently brilliant tones without making the thing look like a railway company’s advertisement of the Riviera. A number of contemporary painters simply evade difficulty. They ignore the brilliance in front of them and transpose the whole scene into a much lower and quieter key. Landscapes, which nature has daubed with the most gaudy strontium yellows cadmium reds, and cobalt violets, are rendered by them in terms of black, white and earth colours. The result, I admit, is often very agreeable. But I resent the agreeableness; for it seems to me that a difficulty has been shirked. It is relatively easy, as I know by amateurish experience, to achieve a pleasant harmony when you are using a few quiet colours. But oh, how difficult it is to harmonise the many and brilliant tones which actually exist- maddening as it is to admit it- in external nature! I myself have never succeeded; which is why I stick to the easily manageable earths. But it irks me to have to make a virtue of incompetence, and from time to time I have yet another shot at rendering cadmium with cadmium and genuine sky-blue with appropriate cerulean. always, alas, in vain. Putting away my painting things I cursed the insects and the sun; but when I looked again at what I had painted I secretly felt rather grateful to them”. 
(ALDOUS HUXLEY, 1934)