3 ondas y luz

Aurora Art Gallery presents 3 Ondas y Luz, with works by Evru, Gino Rubert and Yamandú Canosa.

The project is commissioned by Uxval Gochez to Yamandú Canosa.

With the skull as the common thread, the exhibition proposes three contemporary approaches to the Baroque iconography of the Vanitas, that germinal memento mori of the history of the still life in Western painting, in confrontation with the omnipresent skull of Mexican mestizo imagery.

Over the years, the skull appears intermittently in the work of the three artists, who approach it with irony, spirituality or as the setting for a theater of the introspective.

From an exuberant psychedelia, Evru's work shows us the body as the territory of the fragile, of the sublime and of what transcends us. Gino Rubert, who shares his Mexican origin with Uxval, is protected by the margins of Latin Baroque surrealism with devastating irony. Yamandú Canosa's work systematically assumes transversal aesthetics with an extensive iconographic and formal menu built from a subjective landscape.

In 3 Ondas y Luz "3 waves and light", the "calacas" (skulls in Mexican parlance) measure the time of desire or are the cave in which the speleologist enters to get to know each other or to snoop death with art. In this ambiguous space, the calacas keep the ashes of tobacco or are the sacramental raft of the kiss and show us - in brutal oxymoron - their beating heart. Others draw an unnamed constellation, stacked in a red sky. On one side of this theater of life, a character mixes with subtle energies and prays.

The exhibition takes its name from volume 3 of a physics teaching book found by chance on the sidewalk of a plaza in Sarriá by the protagonists of the exhibition. On the cover of the book Waves and Light, a giant antenna of a space communications station looks at the sky. They decided to incorporate -with irony- that synchronous event to this project that works with a material of high existential sensitivity, winking at the linguistic drifts of surrealism.