By: Pedro E. Rizo Peña In 2017 I visited the exhibition #Metanoia at the Orígenes Gallery in the Gran Teatro de La Habana Alicia Alonso , and I met for the first time the work of this young artist, three years later I attend thanks to the benefits of social networks to a new exhibition. On this occasion, some of those works are combined with new creations, taking a new concept thanks to the curatorship. This exhibition, as its name suggests - "The great awakening"- talks about how this artist tries to decipher from his art the enigma about the meanings of colors and their relationship with emotional life.
The large images projected in these paintings remind me of those Rorschach tests - projective tests with the use of images - and it is as if the artist provokes the excitability of those who approach them, seeking to make us like an empirical psychologist, to discover our sensorial capacities, to measure our levels of affectivity based on our response to those colors.
In Alberto Lago's work, color impacts, attracts, rejects, traps, captures the attention, all at the same time. It seems, throughout this exhibition and his career as a visual artist, to have discovered that psychology hidden in colors and with it he creates visual worlds almost unbelievable to the human eye. Each piece contains an energy that penetrates the viewer who perceives it objectively and subjectively.
In this great awakening he plays with the spatial effects of the colors, where the warm ones are perceptually closer to those who observe his pieces and the cold ones tend to lag behind. This is the only way he is able to achieve this sensation before canvases such as "Outside in" or "Pure Energy", where the viewer is almost lost in them.
Lago has said about his work: "The way in which the paintings are painted respond to a method in which it is essential to maintain a dynamic of variations that go from the most elaborate detail to the most random brushstroke". And he repeats this winning formula by relying on how the light source - in this case the natural light that takes advantage of the design of the Galería Máxima - produces modifications in the characteristics of the surface of the canvases and on the texture of the materials used, making the same tone impress differently as the day goes by. The same variations are produced digitally in its online version.