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Mario Gomez Vargas
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“My paintings, in an initial layer of approach, expose a locked-in roughness and intuitive insertion to the act of introduction.”
Can painting be discussed without falling, incessantly, in a discourse stating its crisis and importance in the contemporary? The breach between presumptions on the relevant input it proposes can be comprehended if only accepting that, essentially, all construction of images is a reflexive possibility, an emergence of the author’s biography.
The empire of shape | Oil
$23,000
49 X 82
An unexpected encounter between two individuals dislodged from their surroundings
Of pictures with lengths of blue sky, textured walls and assemblages in seek of adherence, piece by piece, to the scaffolding that awaits each day in the studio. This functions as a framed holder of a wide variety of pictorial situations and saturated ambiances that unveil the successive practical investigation as the methodical path of preference of the artist.
The unexpected reward | Oil
$6,500
47 X 47
A silent dialogue between two stories that, for only an instant, find themselves overlapped
There’s an implicit negotiation that breathes in the spaces that separate the figurative and the abstract on the canvas, a balance that speaks of a soft grip to the answers themselves that show unexpectedly but not unwelcome. That is not to say it is a complete act of self-abandonment; it rather points to the illusion that there is a permanent seesawing between idea and execution, and persistent room for expansion and transformation.
“My artwork persists the seeking of great spaces - sometimes veering too close to the past, of those that were already events of great presence.”
The planes of intense color that dominate the picture extend like topographies surrounding the warm seclusion of the beings inhabiting them, where the trace of brush, spatula and other tools lie subdued by the careful detail in the surrounding, conquered shapes.
Lost creature | Oil
$12,000
47 X 71
The start of a journey that meets the ending of another
It manifests the simplest expression of the indivisible state of being
The life that was | Oil
$3,800
28 X 45
The tension surges in the counterpoint of the ecstatic monumentality of hybrid beings - be it animal, paper or ornament - and the residence, often barely noticeable, of small human characters in permanent interaction with the many objects with which Gómez garnishes his worlds.
“Trinkets from a childhood preserved in cardboard boxes, glass marbles, origami made in the distraction of mindless conversation… All these props could well be trophies as they are given, finally, a spotlight.”
“Through a deep technical exploration, my art deals with the problems of color and material as agents of their own narrative, devoid of guidelines that could possibly limit the intent of the silent individuals that walk along its pathways.”
Meanwhile, the men rooted in place, tied to matter, are the same who, unsatisfied by the given results, accept incessantly that those untouchable distances flood in the trust of energetic women, anchored in a nakedness which comes from specks, blotches, of painting that sparks fantasies.
The longing of shrouds | Oil
$14,000
51 X 91
Our ancestral roots that hold and define our present
The journey of his work throughout all these years lies in defense of a fluid resolution, it is a eulogy that honors the liquid terrains, almost as if the artist had his mind filled with an endless sum of mysterious rooms, in houses like bodies, profiles carved in the tissue of the landscape, of a tranquility that knows what’s happening.
Withered absence | Oil
$3,800
28 X 45
The physical manifestation of all the things that sustain our material and spiritual existence
This incessant return to speculation, in a reflective search for the contained purpose of every represented fiction, shows a special (nearly emotional) care for the emphasis on the establishment of a hierarchy; an order within a scene in which the real and fantastic compete.
It presents the sum of all the moments that, little by little, build our history and that which allows it
The agreement among pathways | Oil
$27,000
82 X 118
“Permanent communication shows a special (nearly emotional) care for the emphasis on the establishment of a hierarchy within a scene in which the real and fantastic compete.”
The illusion of emptiness | Oil
$3,800
28 X 39
The apparent loneliness that many walk through even knowing it's just an image
It is an undefeated enigma, because in his paintings no one ends up perishing underneath the weight of its opponent, not even those that live like Lilliputians seeking for a way to Troy, not even that who walks around a pyramid in an ascending spiral turning on in itself.
It presents an infinite journey with no return
False guest | Oil
$13,000
39 X 79
The truth is that, in spite of the heterogeneity of its elements and beneath its many brushstrokes, his painting always ends up giving away the true thematic axis of his cosmogony: that of the human being as beginning and end of his creation.
The intelligence of the abyss | Oil
$
48 X 72
How emotions are born from vital encounters and farewells
“Nothing in my spirit is born from rush, despite the dilemma of its fleeting nostalgia remains vital: a fondness for the time-rusted traces of old, an ode to permanence and, simultaneously, an ever-lasting step toward infinity.”
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