Dear professionals, this month we are dedicating our blog to one of the great masters of Artsana Fine Art, the artist, painter and friend Marc Esteve. It is a pleasure for us to explore this path with him and through this interview, make you participate in his career and ideas.
About the artist Marc Esteve
Born in Alcoi (Alicante) where he lives and resides, Marc is a magnanimous lover of the Mediterranean coast which is the coastline that bathes the province of Alicante, composed of beaches, coastlines, cliffs, coves, bays, marinas ... And it is here, where Marc observes and shapes what surrounds him.
When and how was your initial encounter with painting?
I have no memory to recall when. I do remember that all my life, since I was a child, I filled the empty spaces in the picture books and I did always know that my life was going to be linked in one way or another to art.
What element is the basis for the content of your paintings?
The source of my art is light, and it is in the Mediterranean light that I find its maximum expression.
Do you recognize influences from other painters in your artwork?
As a child, while other children were looking at comics, I enjoyed reading the great masters, Sorolla and his light saved my nights.
Do you identify yourself with any pictorial "classification"?
Art is a path. Today realism is my artistic language, but as I said it's a path and this can lead me to other artistic concepts.
What catches you? How is your daily encounter with artistic restlessness?
In my work, the sea is largely present because it is full of good memories, happy moments, the emotion of its mystery and birthplace of civilizations, the history it holds in its deep blue. What I enjoy in my hyperrealist work is the pure abstraction of its forms, each different, unique wave is its moment. The Mediterranean light with its almost impossible whiteness, bathing the shore, the softness of the canvases being caressed by the breeze... Impossible not to fall in love.
Must the artist think about his subject or does the reasoning attempt against the authentic expression of the painting?
I do not judge and I expect the same, I only show my inner emotion, what I carry inside. It is not the most subversive thing, nor do I try to be a mere provocation, but I only try to show what I love inside myself.
How do you see the painting of today?
I refuse to think that there is only one language in each era.
What is your most recent artwork?
My most recent piece is the one that is about to be painted.
And finally, what worries Marc Esteve?
I'm worried about not being sincere with myself, losing myself in the supposed pictorial fashion that others might set. I'm worried about forgetting that the meaning of art is to convey the emotion we carry in ourselves and to be happy with what I do.
It is still too early to know if Marc Esteve will be our next Sorolla, for this reason he prepares and instructs himself every day, depriving himself of time to rest. His future depends on his efforts.