September 2 - October 22, 2022
From Laredo Center for the Arts:
“Everything has meaning by virtue of its context. Likewise, most art is enigmatic when removed from its historical and cultural context.
It can take a lifetime to master learning to appreciate a single visual language and, like literature, it can require a lifetime of ardent dedication to learn to master the semiotics of multiple visual idioms.
But if one knows the history of Post-Impressionism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Neo-Expressionism, Mexican Arte Popular, Neo-Mexicanism, Nueva Figuración, Chicano art and the emergence of Street art’s Lowbrow aesthetics than one can recognize the artistic sources that provide context for Cande’s visual idiom. If one is acquainted with the artworks of Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Leonora Carrington, Clyfford Still, Luis Felipe Noé, Willem de Koonig, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mel Casas and Manuel Miranda then one can appreciate the way in which Aguilar has drawn on the achievements of his predecessors to create his own syncretic aesthetic that is simultaneously aware of historic context yet uniquely innovative. His artwork has a highbrow intellectual sensibility but also a viscerally lowbrow gestalt which reflects an authentic cultural expression of the inherently syncretic Mestizaje experience along La Frontera. ~ Joseph Bravo (art historian, curator & critic)”
Reception: September 2, 2022 | 6–9 pm
500 San Agustin
Laredo, 78040 TX
956-725-1715
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