{"id":1288,"date":"2023-06-29T07:52:25","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T07:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rubenrodriguez.info\/?page_id=1288"},"modified":"2023-06-29T07:54:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T07:54:48","slug":"under-pressure","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rubenrodriguez.info\/index.php\/under-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Under Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1288\" class=\"elementor elementor-1288\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-eaabce1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"eaabce1\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e74ee23\" data-id=\"e74ee23\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-42c18c3 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"42c18c3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! 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elementor - v3.14.0 - 26-06-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><strong>UNDER PRESSURE<\/strong><\/p><p>\u00a9 Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez. 2004<\/p><p>It does not make sense trying to define, precise, describe painting. For many, it is a task as pernicious as useful. Perhaps, it could be said that Rube\u0301n Rodri\u0301guez painting is erotic and mystic. But that is as evident as they are paintings, painted cardboards. And many other similar things could be noted. It is dark. Dramatic. All seems to be hemmed in, under pressure. It encloses a soft expressionism. But speaking or writing about darkness standing in the middle of the night, or about religion before God presence, or about eroticism at the most delight moment is to waste, absurdly, the best experience. Watching at paintings should be like painting. And it is, after all. The same way a good reader should be considered a special kind of writer, only if we are able to live up all of our senses and not just the little balls of eyes while watching, while reading; only if watching, reading implies a sacrifice at least equivalent to that of the painter, the writer or just the one who creates something that we call art later from a comfortable stand view. It think that Rube\u0301n \u0301s painting reveals a guy who suddenly and unchastely, shows his bowels, guts, his guts heart, veins, nerves included and not just a skin vainly dressed up or mistreated by the use and abuse of tendencies and fashion. Rube\u0301n present exhibition is not at all the exercise of a fresher that tries his resources, his techniques, his job for the first time of what we have been partially informed from time to time, but the matured, complex work of an artist who has kept hidden his terrors, believes, pleasures from a long time and, today, he decided to make them explode in front of us so that we explode too. Seizing this odd opportunity depends only on us right now.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-39779f1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"39779f1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNDER PRESSURE \u00a9 Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez. 2004 It does not make sense trying to define, precise, describe painting. For many, it is a task as pernicious as useful. Perhaps, it could be said that Rube\u0301n Rodri\u0301guez painting is erotic and mystic. But that is as evident as they are paintings, painted cardboards. 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