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Rafael Carrió (Beniarbeig 1952), through absolute freedom of expression,
represents in a way that few others do, the fusion of arts. His sculpturing is free from
figurative ties and shows a meeting point between architecture, geometry, space,
movement and light that blend together with the use of just a few materials that are
chosen with care: iron, concrete and wood.

His pictorial work moves in the same direction and he is able to dispense with
many cases of is own denomination as such; the bidimensional binding with a
combination of materials and textures that lend a sculptural dimension to his work,
and even in his work on canvas, shape, lines and colour substitute the traditional
contrivances.

To use Paul Klee´s metaphor that compared the creation of a work of art with the
growth of a tree, Carrió strongly lays down his roots in soil wher the light is different,
a light that is present in the final piece of work and further still, in the management
of it; the trunk is represented by a universe of feelings that flood the artist and drive
him to search for a physical support on which to express them; the branches, the
result of the process, yield fruit that are savoured differently by each of us.

Texto Catálogo “Aire Liure”. Exposición Centre Cultural La Mercé, Burriana. Mayo–2003

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