Asunción, October, 2016.

There are very few possibilities of curating the work of an artist of whom one has, as in this case, great admiration; selecting works to accompany the documentary Feliciano Centurión, abrazo intimo al natural, by Mon Ross, to be released during the American film week, represented a great responsibility with an emotional-sensory load typical of the artist’s work.

The opening of the container, a wooden trunk in which a great number of works were stored, conveyed into a chest that treasured invaluable affections.

Those smooth blankets are plain or with organic or geometric patterns, whose basic function is to give shelter, warmth, protection to the body, the same ones that detonate in associations of ideas of the homelike, the familiar, the almost maternal protection of them.

In some situations the body not only does it feel the climatic changes, but also the much more profound changes that seek a shelter when an external agent influences its natural state, the production of Feliciano during that period contains those difficult sensations to be established in a logical order, combined with other semantic elements even more complex.

At first, the blankets were intervened in their original size generating works of large-format, which were painted in vibrant colors with nature motifs, plants, flowers, insects, sea creatures, farm animals; nature was invading the design of each blanket. With time, the blanket format started to decrease in size, presenting variations in the intervention of the support, plastic appliques were added to the blankets, folk, kitsch decorative elements, which when manipulated by the artist exerted a link with his personal experience, leaving that ornament phase to be transformed into a catalyst for the message that Feliciano wanted to convey in his work.

Curatorial text written for the production that accompanied the premiere of the documentary: Feliciano Centurión, an intimate, natural embrace by Mon Ross at the American Film Week held at the University of Maynooth, Ireland in November 2016.