New skin for an old ceremony

"Well never mind,
We are ugly but we have the music" 

Leonard Cohen 

This project is a review of the mechanisms, conceptions, beliefs, strategies, postures and ways of making and approaching the language and medium of painting in the context of contemporary creation through the work of various artists whose works propose, review , contradict, oppose and / or expand the pretext of the pictorial from visual, formal and discursive platforms that range from the personal, the sentimental, the geographical, the political, the social, the abstract, the cultural and the psychological, enabling a perspectivist vision of the idea of painting as a complex, plural and contradictory becoming. 

 The sample includes paintings, drawings, collages, photography, objects, sculptures and video. 

This selection of work transcends linear, historicist, chronological and style perceptions to give rise to a space that opens and creates diverse models of thought, invents cosmologies, generates mental maps that others can use and see to do something that makes the mystery and the magic of the world is something on our physical reach. 

Luis Hampshire 

Artist - Curator