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No Pasarás
Acrylic/collage on canvas
110 x 160 cm
This bull-headed matador character stands in a natural setting, on a path that leads in an unknown direction. The fact that he is at the same time a bull and a toreador indicates to us here the symbolism of the killer and the victim combined in the same body, and returns us to the idea of the internal enemy, of the man capable of to be the substance of its self-destruction. This also refers to the myth of the Minotaur, an animal thirsty for human sacrifices.
This sad character seems to block the road, the path that leads to the elevation of consciousness and to life, but his weapons already seem very paltry: his sword is twisted, his black muleta is full of holes. Despite this slogan printed on him, “Nos Pasaras” (“You shall not pass”), he will not prevent us from passing, the internal enemy being less strong than the power of the life instinct.
