This large-scale artwork features a striking black and white composition, dominated by intricate, detailed line work that creates a captivating, dreamlike scene. The work depicts a fantastical, mythological landscape populated by various fantastical creatures and figures, some of which appear to be engaged in ritualistic or ceremonial activities. The artist's use of a monochromatic palette and the intricate, almost etchinglike quality of the linework lend the piece a sense of timelessness and mystery. The overall effect is one of a richly imagined, deeply symbolic world, hinting at the artist's engagement with themes of ritual, mythology, and the natural world. ...
Purépecha artist, graduate of the Facultad Popular de Bellas Artes at UMSNH. His visual work emerges from the collective memory of his home community, Cherán. "The anthropological and ethnographic" define a relationship with the social, political, mystical, and cultural aspects as an apprehension of his identity, rooted in communal thought.
His large-format paintings create a ritual space where each of his characters exists in an alterity interwoven with the forest, linked to the prolific heritage of his ancestors. His installations and sculptures emerge from a territorial space within a symbolic imaginary, thus creating a contemporary narrative from a critical reflection on modernity.
Some of his most significant exhibitions to date include: "Arte de los pueblos de México. Disrupciones indígenas" at Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes (Mexico City, 2022); "Memorabilia" at NOME Gallery (Berlin, 2022); "Levantar la sombra" at Llano Galería (Mexico City, 2022); "Uinapikua" with Colectivo Cherani at MUAC (Mexico City, 2022); "KIXPATLA: Change of view, change of face. Art and Cosmopolitics" at Colegio de San Ildefonso (Mexico City, 2021); "Juchári K'eri K'uinchekua. Our space of encounter" at Bienal Femsa (Morelia, Michoacán, 2021); AMEXICA at The Servais Family Collection and The Loft (Belgium, 2021); "CHERANI: Empowerment of one’s own identity" at Palacio Clavijero (Morelia, 2019); and "La Panza de las Ausencias" at Salón Acmé N° 7 (Mexico City, 2019). ...
LLANO is a Mexican platform focused on artists whose production is the result of long-term research. Their body of work is often related to science, history, technology as well as forgotten wisdom and unforeseen communities. LLANO highlights thought processes and thorough research, creating crosspoints and strong bonds with the work from an immersive standpoint. It aims to take the spectator beyond traditional exhibition formats and deeper into the original source of the work. LLANO is an all-around project where exhibition space evolves into many shapes: from an open field in the top of a former textile factory in Mexico City to volcanos, jungles, deserts, oceans, mountains, as well as urban landscapes and historical landmarks. The diverse projects it presents begin as expeditions that go directly into the context that sourced inspiration and information for the artist and are the natural niches to where the work belongs. LLANO’s intention is to build bridges between the spectator and the profound reasons that hold artworks together, in order to experiment art from a new and different standpoint, both literally and symbolically. ...
