In the new art exhibition at Palazzo Ruzzini, titled Six in Venice, from April 18 to Nov. 24, 2024, artist:

Will Paucar

After embarking on a more conventional path in the financial world, Will Paucar begins to feel the need for a change-that life is narrow to him.

Driven by an impulse whose cause he does not yet know, and aware that he has a receptive sensibility, he travels around the world where he meets shamans, artists and naturists and thus finds himself experimenting and learning about different avenues of communication, still unaware that he finds art along the way.

His first steps in painting happen very naturally, he began in Milan, then Amsterdam and Paris, after his first exhibitions he returned to Milan with an artist residency at the Fabbrica del Vapore.

Paucar's creative process begins with his great ability to take in all those emotional details that nature, people and feelings, call to his attention. He deconstructs them by immersing himself in them, as if he should know every detail, analyzes them and listens to them until his sensitivity arrives at the essence of the concept he wants to make visible in his works and which goes on to define the title of the series.

At this point, the figurative abstraction of the subjects or images that Paucar has reassembled in his mind begins to take shape, and what ensues is the realization of a visual narrative, in which each work tells characteristics and perspectives of the same concept. As in a book, each work in the series is a chapter, and when the artist's emotional rush runs out, the narrative is finished and the series completed. Color, palette knife, hands, oil, and acrylic are the means by which Will Paucar tells what emotions stir in him, by which he feels to show what art allows him to discover. Will Paucar's work explores the artistic avenues that figurative art has at its disposal, moving from series in which the subjects depicted are created by gestures of an expressionist nature, modulated by the guidance of his inner chaos and distorted by the instinctive and impetuous use of color, sometimes textural, to series in which painterly vehemence subsides, leaving room for placid figures that allow for the discovery and understanding of what exists beyond chaos. Following this second line of research, Paucar tries to overcome chaos, going beyond the representation of the single concept, and finds all those emotional factors and details, which have helped move his sensibility, into a state of order and stillness, all converging into a single essence.

The works on display at Palazzo Ruzzini in Venice are part of a new series entitled Anima Mundi, which, inspired by the Platonic vision that binds the specificities of the individual into a single universal soul, is the fruit of a personal journey that leads Will Paucar to quell artistic impulsiveness and transform it into a more controlled stroke, in the use of solid colors and the creation of a similar expression of the subjects, devoid of physiognomic characteristics to favor the definition of the soul and spirituality that unites them. Essence, the first painting in the series, encapsulates in a female figure the celestial spirituality and energy of the Anima Mundi; in Contemplation we witness a state of ecstasy, emphasized by the color red, achieved by souls who have gone beyond the physical and apparent state of things and have a Vision, the title of the third work in the series. The last in the exhibition, Sweet Hell, represents the entanglement of souls in the dimension that Will Paucar calls "heavenly hell," in which the cyclical exchange of struggle and pleasure, dominance and submission, generates the balance of earthly life.

He lives and works between Milan, Amsterdam and Paris.

Text by.

Livia Ruberti

SIX IN VENICE. Ruzzini Palace celebrates the talents of six young artists.

This collaboration marks another strong signal of support for art, offering hotel guests a unique opportunity to immerse themselves into the artistic universe of Italian ultra-contemporary art