Nicolás Bedel’s paintings are a permanent tribute to his two greatest passions: nature and pictorial technique. His landscapes, seas, galaxies and cosmos appear to be real but not in terms of hyperrealism but in a sensorial level where one gets allured by them, something similar to an oneiric stage that is presented to us and suddenly “we are there”, living the works from the inside to the outside and it seems for a moment as if we had have entered another dimension.

In what is referred to technique, Bedel has a unique one, a creation that is born from the combination of the most traditional ways of painting and from the most revolutionary experimentation on this discipline; a mix of photoluminescent pigments, pharmaceutical ingredients and traditional pigments and lacquers that he works with a classic paintbrush but also with torches, syringes and secret tools.

The combination of all these elements brings off a picture rich in layers and reliefs, and because the resin gets blended with the paint the artwork obtains different dimensions and at the same time the effect of the layers creates, according to the point of view of the spectator, a work with different elements that appear or fade away and colors that change depending on the position from where the artwork is looked at.

Years ago the fluorescence came into his paintings. This is a light phenomenon in which the material has the power of absorbing the energy and saving it in form of light then to radiate it again. Thanks to the property of the photoluminescent pigments he works with, natural or artificial light is absorbed charging them up and then revealing a great variety of colors: green, blue, red, orange and pink, turning the light into another element of the artwork.

We can only imagine what happens at his studio but it seems that there always occurs something of alchemy or magic that we cannot reach.

Domitila Bedel & Fresia Carnota