All we can say about painter Juan Pablo Zambrano Romero (also known as Zaro) from Piña, north of Loja city, is that he is a world class talent. Details about the artist are not easy to come by but not lacking because he is his own subject. Zambrano's large canvases are an extreme closeup of his face. The works are a tour de force uniting all the important elements of 21st century Realism: figurative, photo real, and most importantly hyperreal. While contemporary realistic figurative painting represents the human form in a world captivated by abstraction, and photorealism aims to beat technology at its own game, hyperrealism alters the image to express the artist's attitude towards the current state of the world. Zambrano's self portraits feature exhaustion, anxiety, fracturing, and most recently suffocation. The latest work shows his panicking face choking under a clear plastic bag. The result is nothing short of electrifying at such close range with every pore, hair, bead ...
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