Le trois fois grand 2019

Carlos Sablòn made 'Le trois fois grand' with oil on canvas, and what grabs me is the push-pull between detail and dreaminess. Look at how the figure's face is rendered with such care, almost photographic, but then dissolves into these organic, flowing shapes. It's like the painting is caught between a portrait and a hallucination. The colors, too, are doing a dance—earthy browns and blues against these strange, ethereal pinks and whites. My eye keeps going to the way the figure’s cloak seems to unravel into smoky tendrils. It’s a bold move, because it risks losing the form, but instead, it creates this sense of transformation, like the figure is becoming part of the landscape, or vice versa. This reminds me a little of Hilma af Klint, in that the painting invites us to let go of our need for fixed meanings and embrace something fluid and unknown. Art is always in conversation, an exchange of ideas across time.