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Alberto Cerritos: Complex Art, Electronic Art and Speculative Expressionism.

Alberto Cerritos is a universal artist actually living in British Columbia, Vancouver,
Canada. He is a Canadian citizen but he was born in El Salvador. His multidiscipline
creative activity comprehends a very extensive production of painting, sculpture, digital work and murals. He is a Theorists, Poet and Writer, author of the Theory of Complex Art a theory in which he talks about the new art path as well the new labyrinths and dynamics in the world of art today. He defines that passion is the way of today’s mind, which transforms the coldness of technology to vibration fever. He analyzes art responsibilities on the technological Era, when we question traditional values even though they do not tend to disappear and are to be enriched instead.
Consequently this Era combines Analytical Synthesis with the free expression of visual
fusions of diverse origin.
His artwork generally speaking is a kind of speculative expressionism because he searches for a symbiosis between technology elements and cybernetic contributions, with the primitive iconic mostly from ancient native cultures. We could say that it is from there he gets a remarkable worldwide character, supporting with force the emblematic painting and signs, nurtured by contrasted colours, combined with intense digital series, full of metaphors and references like the one called Narcissus, Cyber Heart or Venus through his very extensive digital production formed by more of forty different series or on his painted canvasses.
He is a contemporary artist who does not renounce to the past, going into the trails of the
primitive just to put in evidence the contradictions of the visual art of today. We are living a very authentic fusion of concepts, but at the same time we verify the escape from historic reality, creating a labyrinth in which we are going to repeat concepts that in the historic avant-garde we faced with notably depth. Is from there than Alberto Cerritos prefers to go for the social subject, conveying to his cosmic vision worldwide intention as well the preponderance of colour, visceral and passionate understanding formed by millions of instants and intentions. There is love, warmth, delicacy and concentrated sensibility in spite of his metaphoric and technologic expressionism combined with sparks of enlightened humanism. There is a constellation of contrasting forms, inside one another, looking for expression inside the incredible variety of labyrinths
which conform visual existence.

He understands than there is not one way but several ones crossing each other, searching
and likening each other in the vibration pathway of intentions. He does not pretend to
find a middle term, the half way, the force of determination of an exact equation,
but he likes to expand his art, through contrasting forms, looking for
sublime and intense visual moments, to experiment climax more than once. Here it is the most visceral vein in front the most analytical edge, all after testing the most expressive of possibilities of cyber art and painting, his sculpture and murals going through visuality, just to find the human pulse the one which says than perfection is in utopia and not the reason of the intellectual mind.
We are unknown to ourselves. We are living escaping ahead, when is the reality of our hearts the guidance in combination with the spiritual.
Without ideals and energy there were no earth and purpose. With no machinery, the dialectics of bit, the sound of installations and the strength of the new painting of electric expressionism, the soul of the artist could not exist. And the Canadian artist knows all of this.

Joan Lluis Montane
From the International Association of Art Critics.

Madrid, Spain.
April 2006

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