SHALANG

The Spanish painter Oscar Di Costas, also known as Shalang (a Buddhist word signifying blankness and fluidity), creates colorful abstractions in a hybrid style. Some of Shalang's works draw on the drip painting technique of Jackson Pollock, while others channel the colorful quadrangles of Piet Mondrian and Hans Hofmann. The majority of Shalang's paintings combine these abstract genres, thereby creating an entirely unique fused imagery.  

His stated intent is to create works that flow between possible meanings, but are impossible to fix. Shalang's choice of drip painting, then, could not be more appropriate: his treatment of paint on the canvas makes literal the very fluidity he seeks to convey to viewers. He even extends this impermanence to his rectilinear shapes, which suggest movement and instability despite their flatness. With the units of his drips and shapes, Shalang offers viewers small pieces of a puzzle that extends beyond the edges of his canvases and whose pieces form so many different wholes