Colored Pencil on Black Paper
2019
Ruxa often tries to simulate the mixing of colours in his paintings the way they would mix if they were light projections. When two colors are mixed in the palette, a third darker and less chromatic color is born. In the case of light, it is the opposite. When you project two-color light sources at the same spot, you get a brighter and more chromatic color. If you were to mix all the color lights you would obtain white light, while in painting, you would obtain something close to black. Ruxa tries to create this visual paradox in his paintings, designing simulated mixtures and juxtapositions. In this drawing, if he had truly mixed violet with yellowish-green, which are complementary colors, he would have obtained a very dark blue, almost black. However, Ruxa made it look like light blue, by creating an illusion that the superposition of the two rectangles, the violet, and the green, would project an image of the sky, much like a cinema projector.
