Green Heart
signed (lower left) dated 1982 (verso)
oil and acrylic on canvas
31” x 40” (79 cm x 102 cm)

Provenance:
Galerie Genesis

Lamarroza’s landscapes develop a surrealist quality that stems from his rich technical resources, proffering realist passages and then deconstructing them by showing the work as the artist’s autonomous domain into which abstract or geometric elements may be introduced at will.

Manuel Duldulao writes: “In a way, this dialectic- between Frank Stella’s credo of “what you see is what you see” and John’s equivocal “one thing used as another” has continued to play itself out, back and forth, in Lamarroza’s work.“

Leonidas Benesa writes in 1979 : “It is this split level vision that is at the heart of Lammaroza’s ecological landscapes, as it contrasts sand, stone….Take for example, his depiction of stones ... They are not merely stones of various hues and colors, but also of various sizes and textures. Blue stones and red stones. Pebbles and rocks, boulders even. Smooth surfaces, porous surfaces….” In the painting, the stones are surreal against a juxtaposed setting.

Lamarroza’s art is not only critically acclaimed, but also commercially successful. He is regarded as an artist’s artist whose boundless concern for nature and mankind inspires viewers to look at the world in a different light. He has freed his mind and heart to explore both the possibilities and impossibilities using colors.