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Fernando Del Ama Gonzalo
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“I have spent long periods in Italy and southern Spain looking for built landscapes that inspire my passion for drawing.”
Fernando del Ama Gonzalo was born in Madrid, Spain. He earned his PhD in Architecture in 2005. Since then, he has combined video game design with his position as a professor at the School of Architecture of Madrid, at Alfaisal University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and at the American University in Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates.
Athena | Ink
$1,700
18 X 12
Athena is the Greek goddess of wisdom. The sculpture was placed in a forgotten temple open in all four directions. It reflects the serenity of an unavoidable disaster.
Gonzalo’s paintings distinguish urban landscapes and cities such as Venice, Rome, Perugia, Cordoba, and Istanbul. The magnificent architectural drawings of Piranesi or Monsu Desiderio inspire his work. He currently resides in New England, where he works as a professor of computer-aided drawing at Keene State College.
Il Duomo | Graphite
$800
9 X 12
Perugia is my favorite town in Italy. Its Duomo has survived the centuries, plagues, wars, and earthquakes. Most tourists who visit the Cathedral look at the vaults but never at the ground. However, it is precisely under its feet where this temple keeps important secrets through tombs and crypts.
The virtuosity of the details of his drawings, the fluted shafts of the columns, the magnificent entablatures, the calligraphed elements, and the very notable Corinthian or composite capitals are part of the enjoyment of contemplating the spaces.
“The intricacies of the ink drawings are striking, and I know that they invite the viewers to look at them repeatedly.”
Fernandp’s work comes from a tradition that emanates from visionary architects and which, under the guise of a presumed fidelity to reality, is very dreamlike. Fernando's drawings display the contrast between lights and shadows in a battle in fantastic architecture.
The elephant | Ink
$1,700
19 X 12
The elephant does not escape from the temple because it has been there since it was very small. Now, it doesn't escape because it thinks it can't. Earthly things are projected onto the vast enclosing shell, so the sky is the only thing that matters.
A temple devoted to the goddess was buried in the desert. Only thirsty rovers can see it.
Indian well | Ink
$1,700
19 X 12
Fernando’s drawings are endowed with remarkable expressiveness and delicate elegance because the artist always looks upward, and the domes, roofs, and statues that crown the buildings obtain happy and luminous results in return.
“The unique themes and motifs in my work ask viewers to think about a deeper narrative.”
“The color drawings fit well with the author's curious personality and another professional interest that led him to work as a videogame designer at the beginning of his career.”
The architecture is the scene of a dreadful daily life that runs indifferently to the imposing presence of buildings described in detail, with a masterful command of perspective and pictorial effects that achieve an intense environmental sensation.
The future | Ink
$2,000
18 X 12
The architecture is the scene of a dreadful daily life that runs indifferently to the imposing presence of buildings. He saw the infinite space above, and his soul shrunk with horror. The world was an immense shadow of things upon the flooded Earth.
Flooded views of Rome become a memory of a past drowned in the streets and pre-romantic praise of the ruins. Fernando is an antiquarian in his fictitious cities who collects architectural and decorative testimonies, the basis for his invention.
Rome after the flood 1 | Ink
$1,600
12 X 18
Flooded views of Rome become a memory of a past drowned in the streets. The ruins under the water keep a drowsy Emperor awake.
He masters the color-ink technique as well as black and white. There are notes of actual buildings but also invented drawings, between fantasy and reality, halfway between total fiction and maximum classicism and rigor.
The temple of Apollo could not be covered due to its gigantic size. Wars and fires destroyed it. It was built again by Alexander the Great and then by the Roman emperors. However, humans should have remembered that the temple was there once.
Apollo | Ink
$1,300
18 X 12
“The vaulted domes in my work highlight superb perspectives in which the dominance of light becomes evident.”
Mercury | Ink
$800
12 X 9
Mercury was the Roman god of commerce. It also carried the souls of the deceased to the afterlife. His statue sinks into the ruins of a vaulted temple.
Despite the extreme nature of the situations, there is an underlying truth to ataraxia that reflects the calm of a near and unavoidable end, in which only the beauty of the context can be celebrated, no matter how painful what happened was.
I sailed the seas and came to the holy city of Byzantium. Its walls and magnificent columns rested under the water many years before its Fall.
Bizantium | Marker
$800
12 X 9
The architecture depicted in Fernando’s drawings, like that of grand cathedrals and Hindu temples, is living architecture because a living and emotional concept of the world lies at its foundation. It is sacred Architecture.
Alhambra |Marker
$900
12 X 9
Romantics found an unknown place within Europe, full of tales and legends to surround themselves. They were also sure that those mysteries contained the spiritual nature of nations.
“In my drawings, dreamlike characters appear in impossible spaces, like shipwrecks in classical worlds that I represent in warm colors and sharp greens.”
Fernando Del Ama Gonzalo
@delamagonzalo
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