Pol Bassegoda, Cesar Macías¿Y que pasó con el niño aquél?AprilApr 24th - MayMay 23rd, 2014Gaga Mexico City
Let’s call it celestial greed. Like the siege of the sun over a rock that is about to break. Or the strength of an infant who falls and rises while learning to walk. When he splits his forehead with a table and his protectors have not realized his accident, he keeps turning the crank of a strange box sprouting sensuality and redemptive fantasy, cure and incentive*. Say it as you wish. There lies the resistance of these two stubborn examples of the origin of art making. With their energies set to get hold of paintbrushes and droppers blending with their conviction and then again embracing the plans of the cave’s end, to stand over white surfaces, or black ones, swallowed with mythologies, with uncertain mundanity, with wild flowers and critters, with erotism, with acid snow scattered over reproductions of masterworks… Tenacious crawlings of uncertainty projecting unto the sky with unmeasured value, or the same, welding almost without fire. Their exoteric breath is enough (both of them chain-smokers). The pleasure of the colorfield. The pleasure of painting. The right to call oneself a Painter. The self-imposed obligation of buying time. Their paintings are providence in de- votion as well as in contempt. For high up here in the worlds of Pol Bassegoda and César Macías everything prosaic and vulgar does not count, but rather flows in peace without a care for someone else’s creativity being swallowed by marketing or the blood and soul of fantasy or the unmistakably singular barely surviving in other places to the twist and turns of room design striped over the neo- liberal mirror or the bites and mistreatment of the chile-counting fingers… Here then, a transparent adjustment to something worn out in common thought, including their fashionable esthetics. An im- pulse towards eminent keys for those who eventually question the true sense of art but above all a tribute to those who rightfully deserve it.
Guillermo Santamarina
* But what happened to that kid? Well, though his guardians preferred to ignore him, he continued to turn the handle of the bizarre box until his fingers bled. Without shaving. Smelling of night, sex and alcohol, or to ta- cos from the stand in the corner. As a wet stereotyped dog. Of sweat after the most exciting and loudest rave. As wood from a coffin. As cigarette butts, altar candle and incense.
Pol Bassegoda
Installation views
Pol Bassegoda
Works
Pol Bassegoda
Fotones gigantes de luz roja sobre cuadro de Picasso (Homenaje a Picasso)
Poster mounted on MDF board and enamel painting
38.5 x 32 cm
Pol Bassegoda
Fotones rojos / Un cuadro de Picasso, 2001
Poster mounted on MDF board and enamel painting
43.3 x 29.5 x 3 cm
Pol Bassegoda
Homenaje a Picasso, 2000
Poster mounted on MDF board and enamel painting
43.3 x 29.5 x 3 cm
Pol Bassegoda
Las Meninas
Poster mounted on MDF board and enamel painting
44 x 37 cm
Pol Bassegoda
Autorretrato
Poster mounted on MDF board and enamel painting
27.3 x 27.3 x 2 cm
Pol Bassegoda
Sin Título
Poster mounted on MDF board and enamel painting
45 x 55 cm
Pol Bassegoda
El sol rojo. Homenaje a Vincent Van Gogh, 2001
Poster mounted on MDF board and enamel painting
67 x 87 x 2 cm
Pol Bassegoda
Homenaje al impresionismo, 2001
Poster mounted on MDF board and enamel painting
54 x 67.2 x 2.5 cm
Pol Bassegoda
Cayendo la noche en el cuarto y la vida de Vincent… De la serie: Lágrimas de sangre, 2001
Poster mounted on MDF board and enamel painting
54 x 67.2 x 2.5 cm
Pol Bassegoda
Homenaje a Vincent Van Gogh, 2001
Poster mounted on MDF board and enamel painting
67 x 97 x 2 cm
Pol Bassegoda
Los Girasoles de Vicent con fotones gigantes rojos, 2001
Poster mounted on MDF board and enamel painting
96 x 67 x 2 cm
Pol Bassegoda
Homenaje a Picasso (ventana con palomas), 2001
Poster mounted on MDF board and enamel painting
72 x 60 x 5 cm
Pol Bassegoda
Homenaje a Munch y a Pink Floyd, The Wall, 2001
Poster mounted on MDF board and enamel painting
97 x 87 x 2.5 cm
Pol Bassegoda
Florero de Vincent con fotones gigantes color amarillo, 2000
Poster mounted on MDF board and enamel painting
67 x 87 x 2 cm
Cesar Macías
Installation views
Cesar Macías
Works
Cesar Macías
Guirnalda rosa, 2010
Oil on canvas
50 x 50 cm
Cesar Macías
Titania en el portal del tiempo, 2010-2014
Mixed Media
60 x 60 cm
Cesar Macías
Fuego vivo / verde vivo, 2013
Oil on canvas
50 x 50 cm
Cesar Macías
El paso del triunfo, 2014
Mixed Media
60 x 80 cm
Cesar Macías
Dragón de fuego con escudo de malaquita, turquesa y lapiz azul, 2011
Mixed Media
80 x 80 cm
Cesar Macías
Escalera al cielo y el retrato de San Judas, 2011
Oil on canvas
50 x 60 cm
Cesar Macías
Corona verde, 2009
Oil on canvas
52.5 x 52.5 cm
Cesar Macías
Atlas mundi (juego con monedas), 2010-2014
Mixed Media
60 x 60 cm
Cesar Macías
Perseo love/love, 2014
Mixed Media
50 x 50 cm
Cesar Macías
Corona viva de vida, 2010
Oil on canvas
79.5 x 79.5 cm
Cesar Macías
Nido de serpientes, 2009
Oil on canvas
100 x 120 cm
Cesar Macías
Jardin nocturno verano, 2010
Oil on canvas
100 x 80 cm
Cesar Macías
Prosepina, 2010
Oil on canvas
100 x 70 cm
Cesar Macías
Orquídea gigante naranja, 2005
Oil on canvas
103 x 83 cm
Cesar Macías
Luna de miel, 2013
Mixed Media
43 x 50 x 8 cm
Cesar Macías
Torbellino, 2012
Mixed Media
40 x 50 cm
Cesar Macías
Árbol tántrico, 2010
Oil on canvas
80 x 80 cm
Cesar Macías
Orquídea en maceta roja, 2013
Oil on canvas
50 x 50 cm
Cesar Macías
La flor de la mondrágora, 2007
Oil on canvas
60 x 60 cm
Cesar Macías
Lili pachichi, 2014
Oil on canvas
80 x 80 cm