PROYECTO EOLO

Eolic canvas waving on its natural ”stretcher".

Eolic canvas engaged in a graceful dance
with the wind.

Proyecto Eolo (Eolo Project) is an associative endeavor alongside my colleague Álvaro Borobio, Spanish painter and architect (www.alvaroborobio.com), that was born from both our friendship and related artistic and conceptual ideas and concerns, as well as the desire to get involved in a collaborative venture of greater dimensions and scope, joining forces in order to develop something beyond our own capabilities and individual styles.

Thus, focusing on our mutual fascination with nature and its endless manifestations, in March 2015 we embarked on this new creative adventure, which contemplates the wind as protagonist. Proyecto Eolo arises within the context of Land Art, in which artworks are created in nature, using natural materials and integrating both physical and conceptual elements from the landscape into the final result.

Snapshot and subsequent photomontage
of one of our paintings flying freely,
where for a moment, it becomes a bird.

The mysterious forces of the wind make it a fascinating medium: you can feel it but not see it, you can touch it but not possess it... It’s uncontrollable, unlimited and unpredictable; a very powerful wild energy whose presence keeps our planet moving.

Its interesting personality, extremely multifaceted and temperamental, makes it an extremely versatile and rich element as a means of exploration. On the one hand, wind is life, as it happens with aerial pollination; in this sense it’s also a transportation means, a potential "messenger"... It is also a fully-fledged creator, since it’s a powerful agent of erosion and sedimentation (it is the "sculptor" of nature par excellence). In addition, it constitutes one of the main sources of clean natural energy of the world (wind power). On the other hand, in its darkest sense, the wind is an immensely destructive agent, as is the case when it takes the form of tornadoes or hurricanes. For all this and more, it also symbolizes freedom, in its most literal and allegorical sense.

The analysis of pictorial results is an
important part during the painting process.
In the case of the Eolo Project it is essential,
to be able to better understand the technical
"language" of the wind and enhance it.

One of the characteristics of Proyecto Eolo is
that it is a very photogenic endeavour in general.
Since its canvas are plastic they possess,
among other characteristics, the particularity
of being transparent before receiving paint,
which gives much play when photographing
the process, enabling the capture of unusual
perspectives, compared to working on
a traditional canvas.
Here, an interesting view of Álvaro in full action,
where he is not only seen painting,
but also the canvas itself being painted.

In Proyecto Eolo we paint with the wind and favour that it’s the strength of this main member that acts as interlocutor and merger agent of our individual styles and personalities. Eolo is the star, the true architect of all the resulting work; Álvaro and I are mere facilitators of its immense creative capacity, its channelers.

Intriguing tunnel view amongst eolic “laundry”: canvases laid for drying purposes.

Eolo Project in its sculptural -and playful- facet.
Placed on a bush, the wind molds this
Eolic canvas to the shape of the hedge,
spontaneously creating a figure that has
a clear feline resemblance.

An Eolic canvas stands in the wind,
simulating what appears to be a tree
blending in with its surroundings.
One way or another, Proyecto Eolo’s
works always allude to its
Land Art origins.

Eolic self-portrait.
The photographic potential of
this body of work is inexhaustible.