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He was born in Mexico City in 1969. He lives and works in Guadalajara, Mexico, since 1997. He decided to work full time as a visual artist since 2001, year that he ceased to work as environmental consultant, his former occupation.
His formation as artist is mainly individual, supported by short courses, workshops and apprenticeships. The main ones, for 1997 to 2001, are: drawing and oil technique (Palazoo Spinelli, Florence, Italy, two months), human figure drawing, theory of color and technique exploration (Alejo Jacobo, Cuernavaca, Mexico, one year).
All paintings presented here are done in acrylic on plywood. In all of these works, as in past ones, he manages to make the most of the two dimensions of the painting. He does this by presenting two overlapping messages. One is a line drown by carving with a router on the wood and the second message is the image painted with acrylics. Together, they form a whole content, subject to different readings.
In the most intimate part of these series, the author shows how a common event, as the death of a close person, confronts us with the very essence of our own lives. In this way, and usually after a period of strong emotions, this promotes a revision and revaluation of our own priorities.
In general, along the whole exhibition, the author explores contrasts occurring constantly in our lives. He presents intuition versus reason; search for life and for death, tranquility and angst, and action in contrast to passiveness. All this confronts the apparent coldness that can easily be situated in a contemporary context of big impersonal groups of persons living in big cities, where the individual experiences a lack of close contact with others or with her/himself.
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