ArtTour International Magazine
Fabian Perez
One of the world's most collected artists, painter, and sculptor, Fabian Perez, hardly needs an introduction. His tumultuous childhood in Buenos Aires with his devoted artistic mother and his oft-arrested outlaw father is well-known, reflected as they are in the masterworks that first gave him renown on the world stage.
Fabian Perez' work represents a connection between moments in time, reconciling our past and present through his interpretation of romance. He is preeminently the artist of the romantic era, of love, sentimentality, and passion. Still, he is also the artist of modern times, who explores, evolves, and surpasses professional boundaries to develop a fresh new style entitled neo-emotionalism.
His breathtaking paintings elevate the art of figure painting to a whole new, all-encompassing art form that resonates with physical, emotional, and spiritual allure. Indeed, his work earned him the title of the official artist to the 2010 Latin Grammy Awards and the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada. In addition, Fabian went on to win artist of the Year 2014 from the Italian Academy of Artists and the highly coveted Art Tour International Magazine Master of Contemporary Art. Perhaps, most significantly, Fabian has been honored in his native Argentina with an extremely rare government-funded public exhibition for the entire nation.
Despite these successes, Fabian continued to evolve to hone both his perspectives and emotions. Earlier in his career, he observed that "what painting means to me is that I escape from the world I don't like. I feel so comfortable doing it." During this era, his works are predominately populated by people of an earlier era, both poised and garbed in yesteryears' high styles. They are immediately gregarious in a
couple or a crowd—or they seem solitary. However, even when alone in the frame, these men and women prepare for imminent encounters; they stare intimately at someone just to the side or listen to a familiar voice over the telephone. In other words, the energies of escape are omnipresent.
In Fabian's most recent works, his subjects seem palpably relaxed. Shoulders slope in repose. Limbs linger contentedly in their place, and legs fold themselves under women who would rather be no other place than exactly where they are. Indeed, these more modern men and women need not search beyond themselves. This joy of stillness points towards a novel and exhilarating next stage in the career and works of Fabian Perez—one of aloneness without loneliness, timelessness without eras, and journeys without escapes.
Can you describe Fabian Perez, the human, the artist, for us?
“I am shy and introverted, but I can perform when I have to and act social. I'm a dreamer and a believer. My moto is… 'Believe to See.' I follow my intuition more than Google, because I think life is empiric, and experiencing what I want to know is the best way to learn.”
Can you describe Neoemotionalism for us? “NEO-EMOTIONALISM is the name I give to my movement. It's a style that focuses on emotion and skills instead of technique.
I believe that ART is emotions expressed through skills. That's why it is important in this movement to paint figurative cause in this way; the artist can put his skills in evidence.”
How do you think Neoemotionalsim fulfills within society in our present times?
“My intension is to bring art closer to its essence and make it less ambiguous for art-lovers to appreciate. I heard some people saying that everything is art, but I disagree. People sharing their emotions doesn't make them an artist, if that was the case, any kid crying, or any person dancing in a club will be an artist. Painters with great skills but without emotions aren't artists because they work with their minds instead of their feelings. ART happens in the sublime moment that emotions express through skills.
The artist uses the mind when elaborates the idea and after he finished the piece. In the execution, the emotion needs to flow without the limits of the rational mind.