Carlos Mariné pintor nacido en Barcelona 24-8-1973, afincado actualmente en Harar Etiopía. Viaja frecuentemente a Barcelona. Miembro del Real Círculo Artístico de Barcelona desde el Año 1992 hasta su partida a Etiopía. Empezó estudiando biología, para más tarde cambiarse a Bellas Artes en La Facultad de Sant Jordi Barcelona. Dedicó varios años al estudio de modelo del natural en el Real Círculo Artístico de Barcelona. Actualmente está casado con una Etíope y reside en Harar. Su obra puede visitarse en el Museo Rimbaud. Su estilo es un estilo suelto fruto de la practica continua del dibujo del natural que realizó durante años en Barcelona.
CARLOS MARINE:
Barcelona 24-8-1973 Noawadays, the latest guest of Harar is Spanish painter Carlos Mariné who lives here for more than two years and tries to express Harar in black and white or watercolour drawings.
Even today I cannot completely differentiate the city imagined during years and the Harar I see every day in front of my eyes. And I still wonder if just simple black and white drawings can express something of the beauty and character that still attracts me like the first time I crossed Harar’s gate in a full moon night and walked in the streets of the walled city.
And from that wish, never satisfied, of expressing the atmosphere of this place came out the need of observing behaviors of people, rhythm of streets and working places, variation of light during the day; and it’s much more the time used in observing and talking than strictly working, which makes my work an intimate part of life and impossible to differentiate them.
In markets, in streets, in blacksmiths, in shops, the activity of people and life itself is stimulating you to work until you feel a part of this colorful chaos and you draw carried along by the rhythm of men beating iron, sewing in streets or showing goods for sell.
And I try to express in my drawings all these things, always repeated and always different, during these last two years.
You can never finish Harar.
Carlos Marine, painter in Harar