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Sentiments - Desire
LOVE... the most potent of all human emotions. An emotion so powerful that it can take one to the highest heights or to the deepest depths of despair. LOVE has the uncanny ability to hear, to hurt, to come and to go. Ironically, in spite of it all, LOVE serves as the driving force of all human existence. Be it through music, poetry or the visual arts, artists have been compelled to reconcile the majesty of this emotion through their art for centuries. Contemporary artist, Henry Asencio is no exception. Noted for his beautiful forms of human expression, Asencio paints the human condition with an introspective sensuality unique to and celebrated in his work. Asencio’s Sentiments is a visual trilogy comprised of separate but beautifully related images that serve to commemorate but a few of the many dilemmas of love. From the painful longing and insatiable hunger for a lover (“Desire”), the introspection and fear that accompanies the hesitation of giving one’s heart to another (“Conviction”) to the ultimate comfort that follows one’s resignation to succumb - to give and receive love (“Liberation”). Quintessential Asencio in execution and style, the artist paints clues to his storytelling via color, posture, pose and intentional inscriptions etched into the impasto layers of his canvases. From “An acquired comfort” in “Conviction” to “Delam barat tang shode” (translated “I miss you”) in “Desire”- the artist invites us to read into his love to paint and his compulsion to paint about love. In the end, they are all “Sentiments” in which we find the “Liberation” to love.
Sentiments - Desire
LOVE... the most potent of all human emotions. An emotion so powerful that it can take one to the highest heights or to the deepest depths of despair. LOVE has the uncanny ability to hear, to hurt, to come and to go. Ironically, in spite of it all, LOVE serves as the driving force of all human existence. Be it through music, poetry or the visual arts, artists have been compelled to reconcile the majesty of this emotion through their art for centuries. Contemporary artist, Henry Asencio is no exception. Noted for his beautiful forms of human expression, Asencio paints the human condition with an introspective sensuality unique to and celebrated in his work. Asencio’s Sentiments is a visual trilogy comprised of separate but beautifully related images that serve to commemorate but a few of the many dilemmas of love. From the painful longing and insatiable hunger for a lover (“Desire”), the introspection and fear that accompanies the hesitation of giving one’s heart to another (“Conviction”) to the ultimate comfort that follows one’s resignation to succumb - to give and receive love (“Liberation”). Quintessential Asencio in execution and style, the artist paints clues to his storytelling via color, posture, pose and intentional inscriptions etched into the impasto layers of his canvases. From “An acquired comfort” in “Conviction” to “Delam barat tang shode” (translated “I miss you”) in “Desire”- the artist invites us to read into his love to paint and his compulsion to paint about love. In the end, they are all “Sentiments” in which we find the “Liberation” to love.