Scratched Surfaces, Exposed Truths
Alanes’s technique stands out for its visceral quality. He employs scratching, aggressive brushwork, and thick layering to give life to his subjects.
The condors, painted in a raw and expressive style, emerge from rough textures that suggest erosion, resistance, and time.
Frames are not separate from the image—they are integrated, painted, and weathered, becoming part of the narrative.
The artist invites viewers to feel the weight and dignity of these creatures as though they were carved into stone.
Portraits that Defy Stillness
Each painting in the series presents a close-up portrait of a condor. Their gazes—piercing and unyielding—are central to the composition.
There is no background scenery; instead, color fields and gestural lines form an atmosphere that is psychological rather than naturalistic.
Alanes focuses on the emotional and symbolic presence of the condor, offering a contemporary Andean iconography that challenges viewers
to consider how memory and heritage shape our visual understanding of identity.
Between Flight and Survival
In The Flight of the Condor, Alanes doesn’t depict flight in a literal sense. The paintings are grounded, weighty, almost sculptural.
And yet, they speak of a deeper flight: the struggle of Indigenous cultures to maintain visibility, the soaring of collective memory,
and the ongoing dialogue between origin and future.
For audiences unfamiliar with the Andes, the series is an entry point into a layered worldview; for Bolivians and Latin Americans,
it is a reaffirmation of cultural dignityand
ancestral.
An Artist Rooted in Place and Time
Through The Flight of the Condor, Pablo Alanes invites viewers into a dialogue that transcends geography and form.
His artistic language—intuitive, textural, and fiercely symbolic—reflects both personal inquiry and cultural resistance.
In a time when identity is increasingly fragmented, his work urges us to look back, not as nostalgia, but as a form of reclamation.
The condor, in Alanes’s vision, is not merely a national bird or emblem.
It is a sacred being, a messenger of Andean cosmovision that bridges the earthly and the spiritual, memory and future.
Thus, the artist does not paint about the condor, but rather becomes a channel through which the condor may manifest.
As Pablo Alanes shared with us in direct conversation, he does not consider himself the protagonist of this work,
but the instrument through which the condor takes flight across these skies.
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