Hugo Palma Ibarra - Untitled - DGIU001

Portraiture is one of the most widespread artistic expressions, especially in painting, but also in sculpture, throughout the ages. Portraiture is, first and foremost, a description of the subject depicted, an attempt to capture their physiognomy and individual characteristics truthfully and naturally. With the progressive evolution of artistic research, the physiognomic description of the subject has also been accompanied by a psychological one. Therefore, over the centuries, portraiture has also become a means of introspective investigation of the subject, their character, and their state of mind. The processes of abstraction brought about by contemporary art have contributed to this type of investigation.

In this small-format work, painter Hugo Palma Ibarra's style is characterized by the development of a strongly expressionist language. The artist seeks to go beyond what is perceived by the senses to extrapolate the true essence of reality and convey it on the panel in a lively and dramatic manner. For this reason, through the application of color, he develops a highly synthesised process that reduces the subjects to dense, material layers of paint, in which the painter's emotion is also the protagonist, conveyed through his brutal gestures. All these elements together constitute the expressionistic power of Palma Ibarra's pictorial technique in this painting. This power is also based on a specific aesthetic choice that reaffirms the expressionist tone, namely, that of leaning toward a dense, color-rich impasto from which the images emerge almost with difficulty, establishing a struggle with the paint.

Hugo Palma-Ibarra was born in Managua, Nicaragua, on June 11, 1942. After earning his bachelor's degree from the "La Salle" Institute in Managua, he studied medicine at the University of Florence, also taking a course in drawing and art history at the Accademia di San Marco. Later, he went to Rome to study fresco painting at the School of Ornamental Arts on Via San Giacomo. He lived in Italy from 1960 to 1977. Upon returning to his homeland, in 1990 he became a member of the Superior Council of Culture of the Nicaraguan Cultural Institute and then, in the same year, the "Responsable de Artes Plasticas" of the same institute.

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