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new artistic technique has enlarged his repertoire. Paint streaks and
splatters mark many of the surfaces, evidence of the artist's hand. These
elements add a sense of a single moment to canvases that can take months
to complete. Get up close to the surface, sense the texture of each stroke,
each drip. They feel random, capricious. But notice how in one painting,
a comet-like streak is a silhouette of a human face. In another, a paint
drop has "accidentally" landed in an empty eyehole, a perfect
red pupil. Paint runs near broken pipes, like gushing oil. Every painterly
element is a passing thought, a passion. Jiménez's heart guides
his brush as much as his eye. It's our responsibility to the artist to
get this close to the canvas, to feel its pulse...
* Mike Fitelson, October, 2005
The Humanístic Art of Ezequiel Jiménez / Humanamente comprometido…
Paintings and canvasses in many formats have allowed Jimenez to shape his spiritual interpretations toward human situations such as autism, and the pain that war, and even family loss, can provoke, all presented powerfully through a reflection revolving around color and the violence of brushstrokes... His art is an important part of his wide-ranging cultural activism that has gained him the respect and recognition of institutions and critics...
* Francisco Geronimo (Dominican writer and art critic), Nov., 2005)
...To study Jimenez's artwork is to be initially repulsed by his images, to give thanks that the worlds he has created are not the ones you yourself inhabit, and then to grasp the subtleties, the good and hope ever present within the turbulence and come finally to realize that what he portrays is indeed your world...
* Seth Kugel (North American), August, 2003)
With strong strokes, combinations of brilliant colors and human faces that emerge timidly from some of his works, the painting of Ezequiel Jimenez shakes the senses and forces the soul to recognize its anguish, its dreams, its hopes and its frustrations...
* Sandra Banguero (Colombian), Oct., 2003
The color obsession in the painting of Ezequiel Jiménez
...When he took by storm the complicated caribean baroque style: the obsession with green in its various forms, blue as spilled and threatening violence. He did not present such colors as copies of nature but instead transformed them into experienced brushstrokes and through a subjective sensuality...
* José Manuel Torres Santiago (Puertorican art critic)- March,1998
Gallery F. Cabral / Ezequiel Jiménez / of the silence
Between the destination and me", two faces of the crying, the poured ones with the tears, these faces are the only neo-realistic elements, all this environment is abstract,the square pink big spots, the funds of green - blue and misty - angles lefthander - as another hemisphere..
* Humberto Soto Ricart (Dominican art critic), Nov., 1998
The rush of colors and of a calligraphy that struggles between the crude, the geometric and an existential dual-reference, characterizes the painting style of Ezequiel Jimenez.
* Danilo de los Santos (Dominican art critic), Oct., 1998
"Crying of the silencio" of Ezequiel Jiménez
The color and the light turned out to be winning, and Ezequiel placed himself, proudly, in the position of the one who has that domeñar a force more powerful than he, to put it to the service of whom he is simultaneously a beneficiary and protagonist of his work: the nature, and inside her, we ourselves ...
* Bioscar Hernández (Cuban), Oct., 1998
Ezequiel Jiménez eleva sus visiones en arte plástica
...Ezequiel utiliza en la implementación simple y directa de los materiales una técnica tradicional, más en su codigo gráfico, hay que destacar su estilo personal. Sin pretender imitar estilo alguno... Las líneas plástica del arte enredan la imaginación de este artista, que construye esperanza en su viaje como una espátula sonriente...
* Francisco Geronimo (Dominican writer and art critic), Jan., 1996
In the work of Ezequiel Jiménez, they predominate over the different blue and green tonalities; the first one, the puzzler of the sea, and in turn the infinite color of the sky; the second one, the valued Mother Nature route flora and of course, might not be absent to complete, the roundness of his work, the fauna, hence the human being is a constant that free slave appears between mixed between trees and fish: chain and petroleon; flora and technology.
* Roberto Quezada (Hoduran writer and art critic), April, 1995
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