Mauricio Limón

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.