Cveto Marsic, born 1960 in Slovenia, started his career as an artist after having graduated from his studies in Ljubljana. He opened his first studio in Triest and than moved to Madrid, Sevilla, Berlin, Turin and lately to Cascais. The movement in his life has formative influence on his work. Therefore his most extensive series of paintings is dedicated to the „Caminos“, signifying „ways“. Marsic banishes his emotions and experiences on the canvas. After having moved to Sevilla, he abandoned the realistic style in favor of an experimental work with colors and abstract forms. Because of the Slovenian war in the mid-nineties, his paintings become mostly black and white, they express all the dread of this experience. After war, the colors and the light return, but the brush has been left behind since then. From that point on he paints with his hands, going back to the joy and sensuousness of creating. „The origin of my art“, he says, „is marked by the molding of the loam“. The soil is the symbol of life and fertility in the work of Marsic. She raises the feeling of warmth and sensuality, well known by the artist from his childhood in the saltworks and also embodied in the nature of all human beings. The power of nature and of human passions are melting in the paintings of Marsic; they both have the same tension. Even if figures do not appear in the works of the last half decade, they are always present, leaving traces and marks. In the series „Caminos“ these traces are most visible. The „ways“ of Cveto Marsic come from nowhere and go to nowhere, they are placed in no-man’s-land, which belongs to all of us. They are human signs in the landscape, visual metaphors in order to structure the chaos and to show the direction. They are an allegory of life itself, with all inherent emotions, certainties and uncertainties.
