Fernando Uhía's recent project consists of two series: Gourmet Cromaberrations and iPathos. The first was inspired by fast food wrappers loaded with wide ranges of colors, shades, saturations and textures. Understanding that the graphic construction of these packages is based on the intention of communicating, through drawings and characters, a message to the consumer, Uhía selects some of its shades and builds paintings of fifteen vertical bands of color. These large-format pieces intertwine the randomness of the material, like a color poured onto a stretched canvas, and his obsessive study of a technique that remains secret.
Pathos comes from the ancient Greek word pathos, which refers to emotions, feelings or passions. Aristotle claimed that in rhetoric three aspects should be taken into account: passion (pathos), theme (logos) and ethics (ethos) and none should take precedence over the other. This set of paintings is understood by the artist as “pathos”, different from the process of Chromaberrations Gourmet, These works are the product of rapid exercises composed of thin, visible grids that maintain a random character.
