Soldiers

One can be quite taken aback by the protagonists of Rando’s last series of paintings. Soldiers inevitably evoke the word war. War has been one of the underlying themes along the painter’s career. Jorge Rando is an artist between two centuries that has lived with the incessant murmur, the piercing rumble of war.

To our chagrin, war is one of the central axes of human reality. It has been immortalized by artists since the dawn of time, narrated by the chroniclers and historians. The question still remains, seeming almost utopian: is it possible to have a world without war?

Ten sculpted portraits. Brushstrokes adopt the role of the chisel, chipping away at the paint until a face emerges. Their features are inscrutable, tough… the face of war?

Rando uses his art as a symbol of faith in humanity. Love is his bastion and hope can be painted in black, says the artist. War is a product of mankind and thus it must be ourselves who take the responsibility to abolish it.