
Lo que hoy entendemos por un año es simplemente una marca temporal imaginada por nuestra civilización para marcar el paso del tiempo. Como todo lo que intentamos hacer, en algún punto, es siempre un intento para “controlar” y “regular” nuestro paso por el Universo y todo lo que nos rodea. Al final de cada año, así como al principio del siguiente, intentamos hacer un balance de lo que sucedió hasta ese momento, y de lo que quisiéramos que suceda de allí en más. Pensar en cada año como el final de un trayecto, y al siguiente como el inicio de otro, nos ayuda a ordenar mejor nuestros proyectos y nuestros pensamientos, pero es también una manera de cerrar y abrir ámbitos que no deberían ser controlados por un hecho que, en la práctica, es meramente administrativo.
El amor, los sueños, los deseos, la buena voluntad, el respeto, la ética vista como un marco de convivencia entre los seres humanos, el respeto por la naturaleza, el derecho a sorprendernos como niños ante cada paso y sorpresa que nos devela esta magnífica creación son sentimientos que no se limitan a particiones temporales, son parte de una manera de vivir “en continuado” y una manera de actuar como sociedad que nos lleva a mejores lugares.
Por ello, y pese a ello, al finalizar este espacio temporal y antes de celebrar el ingreso al siguiente, quiero desearle a cada uno de Uds. que la vida les de amor y les permita disfrutar del amor de otros y de Dios; que sigan teniendo sueños, y que esos sueños se hagan realidad de vez en cuando (y cuanto más seguido mejor); que los deseos se conviertan en hechos (particularmente cuando involucran y benefician también a otros); que la buena voluntad se siga traduciendo en buenas acciones; que el respeto implique que nos respetan y que respetamos; que la ética no sea una filosofía perdida en el tiempo si no una manera de vivir, solidaria y considerada de los otros y de todo lo que nos rodea; y que como parte de ello sigamos aprendiendo que cuidar la naturaleza es cuidar a los demás y a nuestros hijos y nietos; y finalmente, que entendamos que fuimos también en algún momento (y si Dios quiere todavía lo somos) hijos y nietos, que fuimos niños, y que seguimos necesitando de la mirada más inocente que nos acompaña en algún lugar de nuestro ser, para ser personas más completas, más felices, más productivas, y posiblemente también, más buenas.
Que tengan un hermoso 2016 y una gran vida “en continuado”!
Ignacio
©2015 / 2016 by Ignacio Alperin Bruvera

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ABOUT IGNACIO
Ignacio was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, grew up in Australia and lived in several countries around the globe until his return to his country of origin 15 years ago.
At a very young age and with the help of his mother, a talented artist herself, and his father, an engineer internationally renowned for his creativity and innovation, he took his first steps in the world of art. Surrounded by drawing tables, technical pens and architectural influences he began to create his own path.
His early influences were very eclectic and mature for his age. They included great masters like Rembrandt, Monet, Van Gogh and Picasso, as well as modern masters like Kandinsky, Pollock, de Kooning and Rauschenberg. Drawing, painting, and a great deal of reading took an important place in his life.
During his early 20s he develops a love affair with jazz, becoming an avid follower of the local Australian jazz scene and as a result, his painting begins to show signs of this inspiration. Complex rhythms, intertwining melodies, and a great deal of improvisational skills are developed in his art.
That slow and jazzy pace also helped him mature his own approaches and techniques while freeing himself from classical ties, finding stimulus in unusual places and developing a unique and sensitive voice.
Added to that, his artistically applied synesthesia –condition which he shares with Kandinsky-, adds to his work an unusual share of musicality and innovation. The artist admits the complexity of combining his artistic imprint with the possibilities this "gift" generates while always underlining that it is a constant exploration, full of achievements as well as challenges.
The result is a fusion that explores the limits of colors and shapes within a marked abstraction. An expressive path without reservations strongly anchored on his individuality and unique experience.
This exploration has not only been applied to his painting. He has also pursued his vision into other forms of artistic expression, including smaller architectural and design projects, and graphic design assignments applied to advertising and marketing.
VISUAL JAZZ
IGNACIO ALPERÍN BRUVERA
The works presented in his Blog are a fraction of the main series developed by the artist and which has been travelling around different cities around the world since 2010. The artist’s "Visual Jazz Tour" encompasses works aided by his synesthesia and based on a visual interpretation of melodies, mainly from traditional and avant-garde jazz, soul, Motown and the American songbook, expressed in shapes and colors.
Fascinated by this musical genre, Alperín has created his own visual language through the same methods of inventiveness and spontaneity as musicians. We find in his paintings spectacular spiral lines and longitudinal strokes which glide through the canvas, outlined by an energetic use of the primary palette, extracting from these colors unthought-of shades and gradations that have become a signature and a characteristic of his bold and powerful style.
In this way he has built its own movement filled language to communicate and engage in a dialogue with the public; mostly divorced from figurative representation, he constructs a visceral abstraction that stimulates the imagination and turn on the viewers’ inner sensations.
Ñ magazine (South America´s largest selling arts and culture magazine), in its issue of September 11, 2010, under the title "IGNACIO ALPERIN in NEW YORK – an Argentine visual Jazz show" went further than that, drawing a parallel between the love of jazz from the great Argentine writer Julio Cortazar and his incorporation of this musical form into literature, with the work of Alperín and his intention to assimilate this same musical form, this time in the realm of visual art.
Many subsequent articles in La Nación and Clarin newspapers (Argentina´s best- selling newspapers), as well as specialized magazines such as the above mentioned Ñ, ADN and Maleva Mag –just to mention a few - have also constantly highlighted his originality and constant growth.
The artist has conceptualized his art in a term that expresses the musicality of his work together with the movement that he seeks to impose on it.
The viewers are thus encouraged to become emotionally involved, transcending everyday reality in a process without space, age or time, towards a more universal, melodic and harmonious view of everything that surrounds them.
The work of Alperín has movement, rhythm, coolness and a degree of visual improvisation that is meant to hide a very well studied score. The result is constant dynamism and exceptional use of color in a never ending search for beats and counterpoints.
This synthesis of Art and music, or "Visual Jazz" as an American journalist baptized it a few years ago, it is almost a trademark of Alperin´s work with a strong track record and exhibitions in New York, Miami, London, Melbourne, Zurich, Lisbon and in Argentina.
Currently, the artist discloses the development of his work and research, and how it applies to corporate and professionally applied creativity in academia, as professor of Creativity and Innovation at the Universidad Católica Argentina (The Argentine National Catholic University in Buenos Aires), and gives seminars on the subject in the context of workshops and events for individuals, companies and artists both in Spanish and English. View all posts by Ignacio Alperin Bruvera