Dario Basso
Darío Álvarez Basso (* 1966 in Caracas) is a Spanish painter. He lives and works in Madrid.
At the age of twenty, Basso began a restless work that continues to this day, entrusting all his initial ideas and information to the "Libreta", the sketchbook that constantly accompanies him. What is laid out there in the most delicate strokes and wash-like tones can develop on canvases up to five meters high into the most violent and heavy compositions in centimetre-thick paint or tar with various collage inclusions. The self-taught artist uses completely unconventional means to achieve this, often painting or even pouring his pictures horizontally on the ground outdoors in nature, incorporating the surroundings and the weather as well as direct or indirect forces of nature or even the genius loci in myth or history. It rained or hailed on many of his works, and he washed some of them in rivers. In terms of content, Basso's work is of great diversity and enormous geo-cultural-political universality. He has set himself the task of merging cultures past and present, history, myth, religion, legend, literature, philosophy and science, in particular the East with the West.