2024-08-05 03:01:00
“Calaveras y diablitos” (Skulls and Little Devils) is the name of the painting exhibition that the artist Lucas Guigón will be exhibiting from Thursday, August 8 (from 7 p.m.) to September 5, at the gallery of the Leopoldo Marechal Cultural Center (Vergara Avenue 2396), in the town of Hurlingham, province of Buenos Aires.
“The ancestral footprints are those that mark our next path. These colored footprints trace paths that intertwine, just like DNA, intersecting as if they were dancing in pagan rituals, between different cultures, religions and beliefs of our Latin America,” he explains. Page 12 the artist.
“The little devils have danced among us since the earliest cultures, bearing different names. They are associated with good and evil, and in mining they provide protection under the nickname of Uncle to the miners who offer coca and tobacco,” he adds.
Diablitos are also very popular in the carnivals of Jujuy and in countries like Bolivia and Peru. “You can see them during the unearthing and burial during the carnivals of the Quebrada de Humahuaca, and in countries like Bolivia and Peru, where they are known as Coludo or Pujllay.”
For Guigón, the skulls also contain a world of colors and meanings. “We skulls are those who are governed by the presence and absence of the little devils, leaving our own footprints. We are witnesses of the ancestral dance that connects us with our ancestors, keeping the tradition alive and transmitting it to future generations,” he says. “In our step, we carry the legacy of life and death, reminding us that we are ephemeral but eternal in spirit. We are the essence of the celebration, the presence that illuminates the darkness and the voice that resonates in every corner of the world. Thus, in the dance of existence, we skulls continue to dance, remembering and honoring those who are no longer here, while leaving our mark on the path of eternity.”
The work that Guigón will exhibit in the exhibition “Calaveras y Diablitos” consists –as defined by the artist himself– of objects, which can also be assemblages, sculptures or dioramas. “It is a technique that I continue to modify and that has changed over time. I began working in this way in 2018 and today I present my work in the context of skulls and devils, always within Latin American culture.”