Gabriel Alvarez

Visual Artist

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.


Carnaval

Técnica mixta, 80 x 80 cm

Previa de Carnaval

Arena, enduído, acrílico sobre tela, 110 x 110 cm

La previa de Carnaval

Arena, enduído, acrílico, 170 x 170 cm

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

Las amantes de carnaval

Arena, enduído, acrílico sobre tela, 140 x 140 cm

Rey de la noche

Arena, enduído, acrílico sobre tela, 100 x 100 cm

Te encontré en carnaval

Arena, enduído, acrílico sobre tela, 100 x 100 cm

Gabriel Alvarez - alvarez1962@hotmail.com