The artist Julio Carrasco Breton presented El Tlamatinihis most recent exhibition at the which pays tribute to the historian and philosopher Miguel Leon Portilla.
“For me it is important to look back at At the gate Because his work is a school built by an old-fashioned teacher, very studious of the subjects that interested him and that he was passionate about, which as we can see, was the pre-Hispanic culture and philosophy,” he said Carrasco Breton, in an interview with this media.
“His students told him El Tlamatini”, he explained about the title of the exhibition. “The concept is deeper than just talking about a wise man, it is about someone who is connected to universal wisdom, and the Master Portilla He did it over 70 years of work, of digging into the legacy epistemological of the different native peoples of what is now Mexico,” according to the artist.
Carrasco Bretón portrays some of the pre-Hispanic motifs that León Portilla himself addressed in his work of seven decades.
“I am a person who has a scientific culture of origin, I trained in a degree in chemical engineering, but later I studied a master’s degree in Philosophy, which I could not finish,” said the painter, about what was a trigger in his worldview to arrive at the art for which he is now known.
“It left me a lot hypostatic knowledge, which is complemented by the teachings of the master and which helped me to have a more complex vision of the things that caught my attention and so I captured them in my art and then I decided to dare to pay homage to Portilla,” he said.
This exhibition is almost the same as the one Carrasco Breton presented in France, because he assures that “it is not a decal”.
“There are some paintings that have their owners, so I had to find a way to fill those spaces with some other new works. Something notable about this display is that there are pieces inspired by León Portilla’s latest book, which talks about the Nahue philosophy, but linked to the erotic”, he told.
Tlamatini It is made up of a total of 72 works, among which the paintings stand out, but there is also a part dedicated to the photograph.
This means the third time that the painter has arrived with a complete exhibition at Hall of the Mexican Plastic Arts where he welcomes his visitors with the most “enigmatic” work, recognized by him as Coatlimania, a two-meter oil painting depicting Coatlicue, goddess of fertility and duality in Mexican culture.
“But I would say that they are all special because each one has a very specific reason for being,” he concluded. Julio Carrasco Breton.
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2024-08-13 01:31:09