THE DISINTEGRATION OF POWER
Ashes hold and concentrate the strength and essence of that which has been burned yet survives maximum destruction.
They are the tangible evidence of the disintegration of matter, of the perishable and earthly, of ephemeral existence. But they are also proof of what resists, what is eternal.
In this, the dissolution is not final. Power fades, but not force. Matter, in its most elementary and gray form, is what retains and sustains beauty.
That apparent contradiction -- the pendular concept that implies the transition from construction to destruction and in turn, from the ephemeral to the eternal – is the substance with which the artists present their work, within a collaborative project for UNTITLED 2019.
Smoke indicates the presence of fire yet also its extinction, something that is not seen but perceived.
According to the alchemist Geber, smoke is the soul separated from the body, a column of rising silver smoke representing a path to the eternal and the unlimited, a method of escape from the temporal and spatial.
From the boundless works of Jose Luis Landet, to the neon beacons of Martin Touzón, the photographs of Lucia Von Sprecher, the large-format oils of Juan Dolhare, the acrylics of Ryan Brown and the ceramics of Cecilia Jurado and Angel Gabriel, this exhibit inhabits and explores these concepts, in diverse and sometimes contradictory ways.
