LIBRO - CATÁLOGO HAITZ DE DIEGO

19 THE VISION - Haitz de Diego the horror of conflict, be it armed or existential, is the subject of study and respect at the hands of an artist who knows how to embellish the ruins using more talent than tools. Using a highly personalised figurative language, Haitz unashamedly shows his particular percep- tion of the world; he delves into the most intimate layers of the nature of things, places and mem- ories. And there are no contradictions. He pro- vokes an introspective immersion in his particular way of seeing the surrounding reality, which he knows how to handle until it becomes a manifes- to, a broad story that embraces multiple readings, but a single and legitimate intention: to address the viewer’s sensibility, to embrace all his percep- tive potential and show him a limpid vision of a reality free of artifice and highly poetic. This is how art emerges; this is how I understand it should be defined. I imagine a great work of art to be intense, beyond all subject matter or inten- tion. It must break out of all margins, burst into all planes of conscious or unconscious perception. Its communication must be torrential, the fruit of private conversations between the artist and their muses. It must be charismatic, mysterious and magnetic. It must speak of the unfathoma- ble, the unknown. And to do so, it is not neces- sary to make it intelligible, because the magic of a great work lies in knowing how to enter even without being invited; to contravene precepts; to make the perishable immortal; to be superb in substance and form. An immersive experience. Before the beauty of art, the emotions aroused are agglomerated, provoking a cascade of feel- ings —often disparate— intense and frequently confused or primitive. It is the suggestion of beau- ty, wherever it comes from. Art, in its delightful uselessness (by consensus), its inestimable in- definiteness, its unfailing subjectivity, its unique - ness, has the quality of transcending cultures and generations, while at the same time leaving a clear record of the time in which it was conceived; of its essence. The lofty mission of the artist is to send light into the depths of the human heart,” said Robert Schumann. And so it is, because the artist uses art to nourish his spiritual needs. His creation is a mirror of his soul, an echo of his voice. He shows what he sees and feeds the stream of human