THE PICTORIAL CORPOREALITY OF HORACIO QUIROZ
By Álvaro de Benito
The Marbella-based gallery Yusto/Giner presents El peso de lo inmaterial (The Weight of the Immaterial), the first solo exhibition of Horacio Quiroz (Mexico City, Mexico, 1977), in which the artist employs the corporeality of painting itself as a material element to give form and volume to certain unrepresentable expressions. Self-taught by formation, his pictorial expressiveness approaches the use of line and color in an almost ritual manner, treating them as essential components of creation.
The human body, facial expression, and anatomy acquire an unreal, transformed sense, suffocating the identity that might belong to what is represented in favor of a new dimorphism that allows him to explore dichotomous aspects. Within his forms there exists a discordant duality in the formal sense, yet a homogeneous background that runs through all his creations.
The Mexican artist gestures toward the immaterial that has been transliterated onto the canvas—toward a tension and manifestation of blurred boundaries that cannot distinguish the real from the unreal—imparting to his works a certain surrealism and a fantastical type of figuration. In his proposal, each piece operates as an entryway into a dimension where one may encounter synergies between humanity and technology, metaphysical concerns, and a hybridization that ultimately produces a recognizable corpus, both in aspect and in substance.
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Vista de instalación "Horacio Quiroz: El Peso de lo Inmaterial", en Yusto/Giner
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Vista de instalación "Horacio Quiroz: El Peso de lo Inmaterial", en Yusto/Giner
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Vista de instalación "Horacio Quiroz: El Peso de lo Inmaterial", en Yusto/Giner
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Vista de instalación "Horacio Quiroz: El Peso de lo Inmaterial", en Yusto/Giner
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Vista de instalación "Horacio Quiroz: El Peso de lo Inmaterial", en Yusto/Giner
Horacio Quiroz. The Weight of the Immaterial can be seen through November 14 at Yusto/Giner, Madera 9, Marbella, Spain.
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