Capricho surrealista en la sierra de Jalisco
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Capricho surrealista en la sierra de Jalisco
(Surrealistic whimsy in the mountains of Jalisco)
(Tatei-Kie – San Andres Cohamita)
Oil and natural resins on canvas, 2015-2023
180 x 260 x 4 cm
From the Tropical Paradises series.
Inspired by the plastic vocabulary and geometric compositions of the French Surrealist painter Yves Laloy (1920-1999), this series of landscapes presents a paradoxical tension between the classical representation of the «tropical paradise» that corresponds to the multiple episodes of colonization and the “Cosmovisions» of the indigenous peoples of those colonized tropical paradises. Laloy’s paintings, particularly influenced by North American Navajo art and spirituality, were the starting point for a pictorial dialogue with my own research into the art and Cosmovision of the Wirrarika culture of central Mexico.
Surrealistic whimsy in the mountains of Jalisco,
is a panoramic view from the Wirrarika´s village of San Andres Cohamiata, located in the Sierra Madre Occidental of Mexico. This landscape is one of the starting points for the pilgrimage and consecration of «Hikuri» well know as Peyote.