Abstract Paintings on Dance (Set of 4, 2005), "Golden Dance I - Peace"

Beto Araluce traces the movement of dancers in low relief on a set of four canvases. "Dance is an ancestral method for achieving an altered state of consciousness and knowledge. Dervishes use it in Turkey, as did the Maya civilization. Dance as union, dance as the great pacifier. That great union of the material with the spiritual in a dance that begins with inner peace, with music and meditation," he says. Araluce works in mixed media on canvas, adding texture with sand and resins. He then applied a layer of 18k gold leaf.

Titled "Danza dorada I paz" in Spanish