Group exhibition
A look from five Mexican artists at the latest trends and styles in contemporary painting, sculpture and photography.
The exhibition also features a selection of graphic work by the Catalan artist Josep Guinovart linked to the artist’s close relationship with Mexican culture.
WORKS
Future
The “Futuro” series of works is distinguished by using elements of nature in a lyrical and mechanical way at the same time, humanizing them to represent certain experiences of human life. The ironic tones he uses in his sculptures bring us to the pure reality of how we seem to have control over our lives.
Ricardo Olivares
Talking about Ricardo Olivares means talking about constancy, tenacity and sensitivity. A creativity that goes hand in hand with intellect and is distinguished by taking his works along the paths of surrealist art.
Connecting roots
His ethnic and organic style is a blend of his natural and cultural experiences that is reflected in the series of works that we present under the title “Connecting Roots” in the use of fluid dark lines, dots and organic elements.
Miguel Gaval
GAVAL is a Mexican, bohemian and creative artist with a unique style, capable of conveying a deep and authentic connection with his work.
His work is an invitation to enter a fascinating and energetic universe where imagination and emotion merge into a unique and exciting experience.
Celebration of life
The series of images, Celebration of Life, that Mauricio exhibits, refers to one of the most popular traditions of Mexicans, because it addresses death as a complementary part of life. Its origin is found in pre-Hispanic cultures, where death meant evolution towards eternity.
For this reason, we observe in these powerful images how the scenes of life and death are intimately united, remembering that dying is necessary to be reborn with renewed strength.
Mauricio Silerio
A self-taught visual artist, Mauricio Silerio is influenced by the expressionist and surrealist movements that have left an important mark on contemporary Mexican art.
The visual language used in his work masterfully incorporates traditional pictorial techniques together with new technologies applied to the visual arts. His photographs, treated with digital retouching tools, create a particular look at feelings, spirituality, myths and beliefs.
Deities
The “Deities” series is a sample of his mastery in managing to harmonize and generate positive atmospheres and feelings around his creations.
Juan Luis Chavez
For Juan Luis, creating is stopping the world. It is a space of peace, a moment to meditate. A dreamlike place in which he lets his hands flow and allows them to be the medium through which the universe creates and manifests itself.
Juan Luis tells us that we are energy and he is passionate about the fact that every object vibrates at a certain frequency. He finds it magical to be able to create “inert beings” as he himself defines them, capable of emitting frequencies and vibrating or transmitting any emotion or feeling.
ANCESTRAL COSMOVISION
The worldview and the way of interpreting reality, in general, changes according to the era in which humanity finds itself, reflecting the evolution of its current process. By observing this fact, we find that the only permanent thing is change. And by observing permanence itself, we find eternity.
There is a worldview that goes back to the origins of our ancestors and that remains intact, beyond changes and evolutions. An ancestral worldview and at the same time as fresh as a newly opened flower.
This worldview is the alternative perspective, which is simply the eternal truth manifesting itself in reality, reflecting the colors of the season of the moment. In other words, it is the intrinsic essence of all things. That is, the spirit.
Matt ┛Denegrevaught
Matt ┛Denegrevaught is a multidisciplinary artist born in Mexico, fourth generation of a family of painters and based in Sant Feliu de Guíxols.
His training and dedication to classical dance, along with his passion for introspection, allows him to create works full of content and conceptual value through rhythms, textures and metaphysical perspectives.
MEXICO
His first trip to Mexico in 1972 meant for Josep Guinovart the beginning of a close and intimate relationship with the country, its culture and its people. This event made a profound impression on the artist, as he was confronted with the strength and mystery of Mexican culture, breaking the patterns derived from his European soul and training.
It is from that moment that not only the works made in Mexico, but also his future creation, receives the influence of the experiences lived there in the various stays made throughout his life.
Josep Guinovart
Painter and engraver, protagonist of the Catalan pictorial avant-garde of the second half of the 20th century along with Antoni Tàpies, Joan Josep Tharrats and Joan Hernández Pijoan.
His works, plastic expressions of fertile chromaticism, attached to the countryside and the earth, generate a poetic dialogue between suggestive signs and gestures.
He is considered one of the greatest representatives of informalism, a European pictorial movement born after World War II as an angry response to the values of the dominant established society.