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KALTBLUT: Your style is very specific
and distinctive. How would you
describe your style?
Joseba: Style becomes something
recognizable in dealings with the
matter, a mechanism that aims to
limit and structure desire. In my
painting the brushstrokes are very
marked, creating collisions, knots,
contrasts. In recent years I have
worked on a type of composition
where a landline appears and generates
a theatrical space.
KALTBLUT: Technically speaking,
what kind of material and colours
work best for you and why?
Joseba: I am interested in enhancing
the colour intensity, so that
the painting has a certain energy
and electricity. I like the colours
to be vivid and vibrant. In
many cases I use very intense reds,
as a first sight of the vision that
weaves the emotions. Black is another
fundamental colour in my work.
Many of the figures are silhouetted
against this indefinite plane. Itʼs
amazing to discover how many shades
of black can exist .... all depends
on small nuances. I love oil
painting, its ductility and ability
to create shades. The technique is
something dynamic, changing during
each process to adapt to new contexts
and transgressing its own rules.
The diversity of media creates
new starting points, to maintain a
certain emotion and encounter with
an unknown image.
KALTBLUT: What colours do you use
most depending on your emotions? Do
certain colours represent certain
emotions for you as a person?
Joseba: Of course. The colour inevitably
determines our emotions
and the perception of the image. I
am interested in the contrast between
dark and cold zones and the
carnality of the central figure. It
is a resource very common in Baroque
painting. The shapes are cut
in front of a vacuum, and the co-