Cristian Mesa Velazquez - Danza en la Orilla

Dance on the Shore Oil on canvas · 62.5 x 42.5 cm · 2026 A girl, seen from behind and in three-quarters, throws a leg forward right at the edge where the foam recedes, arms open as if seeking the balance of a step more than a game. The gesture has the same frozen quality that interests the artist in the rest of the catalog —an instant of pure movement, captured just before the foot touches the water—, but here resolved with a nearly choreographic lightness that distinguishes it from the harsher energy of earlier pieces. The blonde hair, tied with small ribbons, is painted with long, loose locks that the wind parts in different directions —a fine, precise brushstroke, in deliberate contrast with everything else—. The white and lilac dress is where the fabric and light become the true secondary theme of the work: folds resolved with broad patches of pale violet and off-white, which capture the dress’s flight in the air without detailing every wrinkle, letting the brushstroke suggest movement instead of copying it. As in Foam Burst, the wave is the most ambitious technical terrain of the canvas: thick impasto, applied with a heavily loaded brush or spatula, builds a physical surface of whites, greens, and blues that accumulates in real relief on the canvas, especially at the crest breaking to the left. That almost sculptural mass of foam occupies more than half the painting and functions as a visual counterweight to the lightness of the figure —the heaviest pictorial element frames the lightest in the scene. The horizon, resolved in flat bands of blue-gray and violet, keeps the calm of the sky away from all this activity, letting the eye immediately understand where the true action of the painting lies. Technique: oil on canvas Dimensions: 62.5 x 42.5 cm Work 100% handmade by the artist Includes certificate of authenticity Ships unframed for maximum transport security Cristian Mesa Velázquez Las Tunas, Cuba (1994). Lives and works in Valencia, Spain. Recent Exhibition October 2026 (from the 3rd to the 10th). Collective exhibition Realist Society of Houston, Jack Meier Gallery, Houston (USA). Education 2013. Intermediate level in Plastic Arts, Professional Academy of Plastic Arts, Las Tunas, Cuba. Selected Group Exhibitions 2021. International plastic arts fairs, Germany and France. 2020. International art fairs, Luxembourg and Paris. 2020. Homage exhibition to Anette Delgado, Havana, Cuba. 2017. “One in a Hundred,” Rita Longa Sculpture Studio Gallery, Las Tunas, Cuba. 2016. “Air of Cubanness,” itinerant group exhibition, Casa del Alba Cultural, Havana, Cuba (reviewed in Arte por Excelencias magazine, no. 32, 2017). 2010-2019. Cubas’ salons and group exhibitions (Havana, Las Tunas, Camagüey and Ciego de Ávila). Collections Private collections in France, Italy, the Netherlands, China, Germany, the United States, Mexico and Spain.

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