Fernando Rodríguez Red painting natural tolimense of the municipality of Coello.Radicado in the Department of Santander Colombia makes 27 years and residenciado at the moment in the Villa of the Gentlemen San Juan of Giron - Santander 12 years ago aproxidamente.

Critical and analytic text of:
JOAN LLUIS MONTANE
DE THE
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CRITICAL OF ART

Fernando Red Rodríguez: Geometric Sincretismo and expressive reality.
Fernando's pictorial creation Red Rodríguez conjugates geometry and structuring compositiva, with the labyrinth of derived images of the own reality. It establishes a pléyade of figures, occupations, situations, musical performances, jazz musicians, clowns, images, faces, expensive, people, musical instruments.
He/she is a geometric, synthetic root artist, with a great vision of the new pictorial contributions. It combines elements, objects, figures, compositions in several planes, establishing a vision to three speeds: the bottom, the intermediate part and the next area to the spectator.
In occasions the color change, allows him to show, through circles-for example -, concrete scenes of the composition that interests him to stand out. It highlights certain angles, in those that a character appears executing a certain action. A character that charges importance above the rest of the composition. But, if we observe the composition in their entirety, we will verify that this is more important than the character before signal.
The presence of different focuses of attention in oneself composition produces a dynamic effect, standing out the geometric position, the formal conjunction, for itself, in an environment in which prevails the figuration and the concrete allusions to characters, beings, faces, elements, occupations and utensils.
The reality, view from far, he/she becomes abstraction, while, if one observes from close, the final result is all and each one of the described elements.
The fence far, figuration and abstraction, reality and fantasy, produce an effect of very evident dicotomía, in the sense of configuring a kinetic position of the pictorial reality that is compound for ideas and developments, in theory, opposed, but, in fact, absolutely complementary. Because the final reality of the formal elements, human beings, faces and other iconismos, it is their own geometric structuring.
In the same way that if we observe, in general lines, the composition will verify, in the first place, the geometric evidence that persists. Macro universe and micro universe. The macro is the geometry of great soaked and the micro is the same thing but in reduced size. The final result, clearly, is that all that exists possesses physical structure, chemistry, geometric and interior light.
There is not reality without fantasy, realism without abstraction, matter without spirit.
Fernando Red Rodríguez joins in way sincrética in his composition abstraction and figuration, geometry and descriptive reality that it changes according to the distance and the incidence of the light. Their work can include it inside a contemporary sincretismo, in which the movement is important, but also the color and the light. The light incidence opens us doors to other realities, in those that the tridimensión is a fact, but leaving of specific limitations, of states of spirit in those that the mind fluctuates of a state aware to other subconscious and, of the subconciencia to the transcendency of the spirit. But to get this transcendency, first it is necessary to know the reality, to be soaked of vivencias, to have experiences and later the light comes.
Joan Lluís Montané
Of the International Association of Critical of Art
June 30 of 2006-Madrid - Spain.


EDUARDO GROVE BALLEN
It criticizes Analytic

We could say that their beginning and their destination traffic in the constant margins of the pariah, making a subjective equation of their art and the art made muscle and bone. The one that circulates in the borders, in the periphery of the acceptance to the interior of the plastic system.
Fernando's work Red Rodríguez (Colombia 1953), it is structured starting from classifications and emotional successions that come off of an autobiographical reference seated in their character peculiar of intimacy, linking experiences of life in their formation policultural and contingent references installed in the prevailing systems with their connotations in the different forms of power, ordination and sociocultural oppression.
Red Rodríguez leaves to the encounter of the no perceived. It is open to the perception. It is not alone in expressing sensations, it produces them. For he/she escapes it of if same. Their colors are instinctive. He/she has a relationship with the colors: visual and immediate. But that strident they are sour.
Their art is frozen time and a flattering insurance for the future, and its artistic work has more than a reading; a generic and direct, where the general aspects and another later one are apprehended starting from which you/they adapt those small details that in a first moment they passed desapercibidos.
The colors in Fernando Red Rodríguez not generates many sensations linked strictly to the visual perception. They are clear, understanding each other as that invisible quality that unloads and it clears the work in their projection toward the exterior. In this Colombian painter: the chimera, the image, the obsession, the dream… they are absolutely real and necessary. It allows them to live in him exercising their magic in the creative process. He/she makes real the chimerical thing and chimera the real thing. In their work, sometimes, what wants to transmit, hides behind the obvious thing. To discover it it is necessary to look and, mainly, to have very few certainties. The fondness and the strength in Red Rodríguez are present as an everything. In their confrontation, the forms acquire bigger intensity, and some of their images nailed in their conventional time, tremble with the time inside of, stopping the time, putting in flunk what the time is. Their to be lost is a state of grace.
For
Eduardo Grove Ballén (Málaga - Spain)
VII-14-2007