ABOUT
The Exhibition
This show marks a comeback after 30 years working for Hollywood studios. Specifically in animation, live action, virtual reality, video games design, and publishing houses.
I remember back in Mexico and during my childhood, seen 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.
The XBorders series, come straight from a state of free stream of consciousness. There was a high demand for me to not use any digital either published source or reference.
The backbone source of inspiration of this challenge was to make a relevant point. A manifestation of not participating or contributing to the AI diarrhea, spewed into the public with zero shame daily.
This exhibit is meant to captive the human spirit. And I knew from the beginning that I wanted to go back to basics, doing marks with pencils and charcoal, to fully indulge myself by taking me back to my creative inner child.
For all paintings, I would begin the process blindfolded, drawing with my left hand, then my right, creating a chaotic abstract symphony of lines. Then slowly molding the image by intersecting, deleting and reshaping random shapes to evolve the drawings that were born without any preconceptions nor fear to fail.
My objective was to enjoy the process the same way I use to, when I was drawing on the walls as a kid.
Nowadays, I am still in love with rich textures, seen through my adult life, but mindfully wanting to bridge chaos vs order… Constantly editing my mind.
The content of the pieces is an innate desire to not to 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 transformative metamorphosis of what we like to be called human beings, but in a transitional moment where you have been taken apart by a border or a crossing of multidimensional planes.
This epic moment can be seen as passing; ceasing to exist, and becoming something else as we leave our bodies.
And the outcome is a marriage between a non-cerebral act of pure creative flow along with an arsenal of learned artistic academia.