Gabriel Macotela surpasses his bodily limits “a la Frida Kahlo” and reveals in Acapulco 62

Mexico Metropolis. A set of latest drawings by Gabriel Macotela (Guadalajara, 1954), made and Frida Kahlothat’s, reclining, might be displayed with the title gentle slit, on the Acapulco 62 gallery, beginning at the moment. The sequence is the results of the necessity to keep in mattress and what higher technique to do it than to start out drawing.

Aside from that There was nothing else to dodrawing allowed the painter and sculptor to transcend the boundaries of his confinement and transport himself to different worlds.

In these drawings, Macotela returns to his lifelong themes, for instance, his landscapes, buildings, figures, faces, boats and nonetheless lifes, as a evaluate of his manufacturing. It’s an summary work at first look; Nonetheless, the artist doesn’t take into account himself an summary puresince figuration is at all times latent.

–What does the drawing characterize for Macotela?

-It is basic. I realized it on the Nationwide Faculty of Plastic Arts, with Gilberto Aceves Navarro, who made us draw excessively. He turned, due to this fact, the principle construction of my portray and sculpture.

They don’t seem to be drawings supposed to later turn out to be a portray or a sculpture: they exist in their very own proper.

–Once you draw, what’s your emotional state?

–Properly, I transfer to a different world, additionally after I paint; Nonetheless, drawing has a selected, totally different character, as a result of it’s the essence of artwork and portray. It then has a particular worth. It is sort of a musical rating, with a construction of shapes and play. There’s a distinctive half, not so strict, however extra free.

Working in uncommon situations allowed Macotela to experiment with new supplies and different strategies. He drew with pencils, an atomic pen –as is from stationery–, fountain pen, and took up the markers once more. He additionally used charcoal, graphite and pastel pencil; He even labored with Prismacolor, one thing he had by no means executed earlier than. I found results that I hadn’t discovered with different pencils. I do know pastel higher, as a result of I’ve labored with it quite a bit.he factors out.

The exhibition additionally features a model-installation, The success of the conflict, made with Lego items, blocks that Macoteca has labored with quite a bit. The theme of the piece is conflict conflicts; it represents destroyed, burned, lonely buildings, Pondering a little bit in regards to the devastation of the present wars in Ukraine and Palestine, Clarify. The piece is accompanied by music composed by trumpeter Eugenio Elías and Luri Molina, double bassist.

The position of Viskin and Mena

Artists Boris Viskin and Alfono Mena, answerable for Acapulco 62, and painter Gustavo Monroy, motivated Macotela to do the exhibition. Title, gentle slit, Viskin’s thought, factors in the direction of hope.

That is the primary time that Macotela reveals in that gallery, and he does so with a piece filled with vitality and an power of honoring oneselfsays Viskin. It’s a set of works sturdy but gentle, to the extent that the drawing at all times has the energy to be extra artificialOn the similar time, it’s seen that Macotela’s proposal has maturedas an aged wine or a particular reserve.

For Mena, the exhibitor represents a stage of artwork on the time. As Boris mentioned, he’s an individual who matures and matures, plus he’s very dedicated, whether or not we like his work or not. That is a matter of style; Nonetheless, all of us have to acknowledge him as an artist.

He’s additionally a really well-liked particular person, regardless of retaining a low profile: He has numerous good nature, as they are saying. He at all times sees the optimistic facet of every thing. When he talks about another artist, he does so from his good facet, which he acknowledges. That could be very precious, as a result of we at all times criticize others and he does not, however somewhat he values ​​the great facet of his colleagues..

In Macotela’s drawings there are aware references to the Bauhaus, associated to its constructivist aspect; moreover, it mixes figuration with abstractions. Though it is rather totally different, it jogs my memory of Cezanne, who instantly turned virtually summaryhe factors out.

Relating to the composition created for the installation-model, Viskin factors out that Macotela was at all times a musician: The rhythms have been a part of his work, they appear to be sonatas, musical items. Mena brings up that When Gabriel lived with Yani Pecanins, he even had a bar within the basement of his home, the place he performed drums with different folks. He’s a music lover, like Boris. Music evokes him and he listens to it on a regular basis..

Macotela is presently exhibiting large-format work, consultant of a decade of manufacturing, on the Museo de Arte de Sonora, in Hermosillo.

The exhibition Crack of sunshine, by Gabriel Macotela, will open at the moment at 1:00 p.m. on the Acapulco 62 gallery (Dr. Atl 217, Santa María la Ribera neighborhood). It can stay open till July 28.