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La Vida es una herida Absurda

2015
Commission. 25 Oil paintings.
Permanent collection, Centro de Cirugía de Mínima Invasión Jesús Usón (CCMIJU), Cáceres

The works are on permanent public display at ccmijesususon.com

Twenty-five large-scale oil paintings, permanently installed in the main hall of the Centro de Cirugía de Mínima Invasión Jesús Usón — one of Europe's leading centres for minimally invasive surgery, in Cáceres, Spain.

To make them, Alejandro Lucadamo attended real surgical operations. He stood in the operating theatre and watched — the opened body, the instruments, the precision of hands working inside a person still alive. He then returned to the studio and painted.

The result is not medical illustration. It is something closer to what surgery and painting have always shared: the belief that truth is found inside, that the surface must be broken to reach it, and that the hand — trained, precise, unhesitating — is the instrument of that knowledge.

La vida es una herida absurda does not depict suffering. It depicts the condition. Life as something that arrives already wounded, that continues wounded, and that finds in that wound not tragedy but the irreductible proof of being alive.

The works are on permanent public display at ccmijesususon.com

Veinticinco pinturas de gran formato, instaladas permanentemente en el hall principal del Centro de Cirugía de Mínima Invasión Jesús Usón — uno de los centros de referencia quirúrgica más importantes de Europa, en Cáceres.

Para realizarlas, Alejandro Lucadamo asistió a operaciones quirúrgicas reales. Estuvo en el quirófano y observó — el cuerpo abierto, los instrumentos, la precisión de las manos trabajando dentro de una persona todavía viva. Después volvió al estudio y pintó.

El resultado no es ilustración médica. Es algo más cercano a lo que la cirugía y la pintura siempre han compartido: la convicción de que la verdad se encuentra dentro, que la superficie debe romperse para alcanzarla, y que la mano — entrenada, precisa, sin vacilación — es el instrumento de ese conocimiento.

La vida es una herida absurda no representa el sufrimiento. Representa la condición. La vida como algo que llega ya herido, que continúa herido, y que encuentra en esa herida no la tragedia sino la prueba irreductible de estar vivo.

Las obras pueden visitarse en ccmijesususon.com

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