My art practice is an attempt to express a poetical vision. I deal with the questions of the tragic and the heroic both in idealist and existentialist terms and address the question of the death of god(s) and the meaning of human existence. I see landscape painting, and more particularly cityscapes as existential landscapes, metaphors of human condition as well as inner-mirroring. To face the viewer with his own existential condition is one of my main aims. I use mythological references (specially ancient Greek) as I consider them as an archetypal and universal reservoir of the human condition. I am influenced by both abstractionist and figurative painters through history such as Turner, Friedrich, Malevich, Rothko, Baselitz.All my works are in acrylic, both in paper and canvas, due to the properties ofthis kind of medium; its likeness to produce light effects and the flexibility to either produced transparency or opaque and impasto surfaces. As for my position as an artist and what I think is the artist role I quote the French thinker Albert Camus:“One of the temptations of the artist is to believe himself solitary, and in truth he hears this shouted at him with a certain base delight. But this is not true. He stands in the midst of all, in the same rank, neither higher or lower, with all those who are working and struggling. His very vocation is to open the prisons and give voice to the sorrows and joys of all. This is where art, against its enemies, justifies itself by providing precisely that it is no one’s enemy. By itself art could not probably produce the renaissance that implies justice and liberty. But without it, that renaissance would be without forms and, consequently, would be nothing. Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.”