Fernando Otero: Constellation of symbols

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He had such plenty of works – roughly thirty – and in such a spread – of media, strategies, codecs and supplies – that he himself was puzzled: what title ought to I give to my exhibition? He walked like this, pondering, on the lookout for a reputation that will unite such plurality. And since he could not discover it, he determined to pressure the etymology and invent one from the Greek root “arthro.” In order that Artrofilia It could be one thing like ‘joint love’. “Verbal invention and improvisation, each in cultured and avenue speech, is a present that I’ve all the time admired,” he says.

So, between confusion and humor, the artist Fernando Otero (52) ended up placing collectively his eighteenth particular person exhibition, a sober group that mixes portray on canvas, steel sculpture, drawing on paper, and distinctive work made with guidelines. There are additionally ceramics in installations, dyeing on pleated paper, fingers that open, sharp geometric fields and tough assemblages that float in house. A complete block filled with symbolism that seeks to attach being and being in an surroundings filled with mysticism.

Plastic and religion

It seems that, for Otero, religion is a non-ethereal compound. “The esoteric is current not solely in its sectarian dimension, it’s current in on a regular basis life,” says the artist. “Lots of our selections are made primarily based on non-rational standards primarily based on religion, feelings or superstitions. The thought of ​​a universe interconnected by forces and legal guidelines that science generally explains, however typically ignores, is a theme current within the symbolic constellation of my plastic work.”

However, actually, it’s not the one purpose. Otero has additionally welded a collection of beak suggestions right into a circle, that’s his manner of signifying a spherical of neighborhood work. He has additionally structured tables with guidelines, which seek advice from the trendy obsession with capturing actuality by changing it into figures. “Right here every actor in society is represented by his software: the architect, the tailor, the scholar, the trainer, and so forth. These fingers query us about how we deal with the unknown. All my work are an invite for the viewer to search out their very own archetypes.”

Amongst arcana

This aesthetic dimension and poetic affect additionally transfer the opposite ritual experiences of the exhibition, which finally ends up conveying the assorted productive points with which the artist has been working for a while. That’s, steel sculpture, modeling clay, portray and drawing. There are greater than thirty items the place the Apu or sacred mountain seems and a few canvases of sharp geometry, even supposing for the writer structure is simply a metaphorical chance.

So, Artrofilia It finally ends up being populated by items the place the thought of ​​superstition and the way it pertains to the administration of worry emerge as a post-pandemic dialogue. The thought of ​​the amulet, for instance, is offered within the type of sculptures of fingers with their fingers crossed or with magical symbols tattooed on the chilling roughness of their pores and skin. On this manner they appear to conjure up what the arcana cover, what we can’t clarify, a lot much less perceive. In any case, artwork doesn’t clarify the world: it solely attests to its thriller.