The artwork features a striking sculptural piece composed of natural and found materials. The main visual elements are the twisted, rustic wooden branch and the textured, mask-like face constructed from various materials, including fabric and beads. The overall composition creates an unsettling, almost animalistic presence. The artwork's style and technique appear to blend organic and industrial elements, evoking a sense of the otherworldly or supernatural. This piece likely reflects the artist's exploration of themes related to the interplay between humanity and nature, or the blurring of boundaries between the real and the imagined. ...
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. ...
