Mens from the South Series. Gabriel Alvarez. Visual Artist. Paintings

Gabriel Alvarez

Visual Artist

Mens from the South Series

My organized passion, every character or object that I draw and paint, have the territory they need to impart their own freedom....Read more

These paintings are characterized for a profusion almost obsessive of the little compartment, where a figure or a sign give as a result a grid that, in some paintings, divides the surface into more than a hundred pieces. The usage of this compositional structure has become an obsession that, thanks to art, becomes in the continuity of the aesthetics by which is characterized. Through sgraffito done with ends of different thickness, a simple drawing emerges which is loaded with meaning, referring to different social statues of pre-columbine cultures. Urn, sun, moon, balance, skull, mask, bird, fish and characters, drawn with simple stroke, shows in an analogue way, our contemporarily represented with sarcasm, some of the characteristic elements of the consumer society.