ABOUT
The Exhibition
One year ago, I found myself at a crossroads. My life as I knew then, no longer was. I became present to my art once again.
This exhibition marks a comeback to the gallery space, after 30 years working for the entertainment industry. Worked for animation studios, live action film, virtual reality, video games, music videos, advertising agencies and publishing houses.
I remember back in Mexico during my childhood years, seeing rich layers of posters of wrestling matches like “La Tonina Jackson” vs “El Perro Aguayo”. Multilayers of boxing and local concerts posters, juxtaposed on a corner of an adobe white wall, showing some original parts of the bricks… I find these worn-out prints weathered by time and life so fascinating. Subconsciously I had tapped to the world of art.
The XBorders series, come straight from a state of free stream of consciousness. I committed myself to not use any source of reference whether digital or traditional, only a pure creative flow practice connecting with my unconscious and not participating or contributing to learned trades.
This exhibit is meant to captivate a human spirit based on personal experience(s). I knew from the beginning I wanted to go back to basics, doing marks with pencils and charcoal. Fully indulging myself in the process of taking risks and being carefree of making mistakes. In other words, bringing back my creative inner child.
In the second phase of this experimental process, I began by getting blindfolded, drawing with my left hand creating a chaotic abstract symphony of lines. Then using the right hand to start molding the image by intersecting, deleting and reshaping the drawings without any preconceptions nor fear to fail.
The content of the pieces is an innate desire to not do representational imagery. There are some works that have strong figurative characteristics, but they have been either severely distorted or have been shown in a process of deconstruction.
This deconstructive nature of the figure is due to an extreme experience whether is spiritual or metaphysical.
I wanted to capture this metamorphosis of what we called human beings, to an echo of what we could be or become, in a transitional moment in time where you have been taken apart by a border or a crossing to multidimensional planes.
This epic moment can be seen as passing; ceasing to exist and become something else as we leave our terrestrial bodies.
This outcome has been a birth, or better yet, a recent rebirth between a non-cerebral act of pure creative flow along with an arsenal of learned artistic academia.