Carnival Series
Possessed by colour. This Carnival series, the mask or face or beast or deity, are the motives which inspired this series of paintings and objects....Read more
Carnival is a popular celebration, is the cultural heritage that perpetuates and revitalizes ethnic diversity. The hole community forgetting their social and racial categories, they regroup in the celebrations. But, they are also a symbolic construction which puts in evidence beliefs, myths, imaginaries, identities, mixtures and complexities
Latticework is still a constant in my work, is the structural principle to install a complex system almost pictographic. This systematic order which provokes the perception in my works, far from being a mere representation, it produces the belief unto to magic-religious world; from the experiences and practices that treasure the rescue of oral mores. Reconquer the sense of fete and rituals, updating their uses and customs in society.
Máscara de Naiguata
Enduído, acrilíco sobre tela, 100 x 100 cm
Máscara de Yaré
Técnica mixta, 80 x 80 cm
Máscara de Yaré
Técnica mixta, 110 x 110 cm
Diablos danzantes
Arena, enduído, acrílico sobre tela, 140 x 140 cm
En la Diablada
Arena, enduído, acrílico sobre tela, 170 x 170 cm
Rey de la noche
Arena, enduído, acrílico sobre tela, 100 x 100 cm
Gabriel Alvarez - alvarez1962@hotmail.com