The Santo Domingo de Teguise convent hosts the exhibition "Tremor" by Lanzarote painter Jaime Romero since this Sunday. The inauguration was attended by the Councilor for Culture of the Teguise City Council, Nori Machín, family and friends of the painter who very kindly and in great detail took a tour of the entire room explaining to all those present how the process had been carried out and the material used in it and, above all, the most difficult thing, explaining the moments of inspiration to be able to finish the work, achieving the set objective.
After five years of disappearing diving in the Canary Islands seabed, those that fill his creative palette with colors and images for earthly beings, Jaime Romero explodes like the volcano and surprises us again with "Tremor", a spectacular work where he expresses the symbiosis of the drama that devastated Lanzarote in the years 1730 to 1736 and the island of La Palma during the hellish months of 2021.
We must celebrate the artist's return to painting because it is something that cannot be programmed, since it depends on inspiration and mood, the combination of which is sometimes very difficult. On this occasion he delights us again with a very complicated theme, managing to share mixed feelings between drama and beauty.
Jaime's ability to transform desolation into a work of art is no coincidence. He is a son of Lanzarote and as such, a privileged spectator of how disaster is achieved in an idyllic landscape, however abrupt nature may present it to you. Another thing is the special sensitivity to emotionally fit it and express it in his paintings, scrupulously worked with his, so personal, deep stroke, using the materials of a landscape devastated by the volcano that will never be the same again.
It is very difficult to explain in words to the victims, who today suffer our latest tragedy that occurred on the island of La Palma, that the volcano that has devastated today, will be the basis of their future tomorrow. But not so much with images. This impressive work by Jaime Romero is dedicated to them, to those who have lost everything, to those who cannot find encouragement at this time. This work is a breath of hope through art, before which humans remain in silence and admiration.
Tremor, sadness, loneliness, is what one feels contemplating this splendid work up close, what we have seen from afar, what has been and what can be again, but better that art transfers it to us here exhibited.
Tremor consists of 31 works in various formats in which the technique of acrylics with textures on wood has been used with a duration of about six months without stopping.
Jaime Romero recalled at the presentation that he has been dedicated to painting combined with other disciplines since the 70s and that his first exhibition in 1980 "Colectiva Lanzarote-80", exhibited at the Torrelavega Society, was presented by César Manrique. The exhibition can be visited until April 23.
