The eloquent conflict is reaffirmed in the tensions between expressive traditions and their deconstruction. It can be said that post subjective reality has found a fertile narrative in Oscar Muñoz’s work, mediated by the paradox between materiality of the elements he uses and the evanescence of the meanings that the latter invoke. His experiments always suggest the influence of resources attached to a repertoire of morphologies (drawing, portrait) or media (support, format) that are subverted to extend support to the meanings between the lines.
Anyone can speak of his exquisite graphic work, in the same way that one can mention its pictorial quality regardless of the idea behind the painting. The process as is the case with almost all of the artist’s production, exalts the presence of traditions in ways that are on the fringe and freed of orthodox aesthetic considerations.
Representacion de un intervalo full#
The cycle that goes from one "Other" to the inexpressible, experience-based other, the occurrence of a circumstance, mark and footprint hereby runs full circle. What it shows-hides is an experience that is given only to its recognition as an optical illusion, as effect and artifice. The representation scatters on a par with its historical enclaves, and this process is emphasized with a vital statement: "while I breathe", which points to the passage of life, its temporality and the resistance it opposes to being trapped in an all-encompassing image.
Representacion de un intervalo series#
In this series it appears burnt, pricked, disintegrated in full form, in the same measure that the painting disappears as a substratum and permanent territory. Its imagined alter ego is not merely left to the mercy of the unforeseeable. The piece radicalizes the levity of the "I". With that absence of a prop to the representation, the emerging image of the "I" has left behind its transcendental characteristics to fill the void left by that fault in the symbol that Muñoz’s work makes visible. Intervalos (mientras respiro) returns to the use of the self-portrait in a delicate, extremely fragile presentation that takes the dematerialization of the support as a semantic key to the extreme. Oscar Muñoz: Dissolvency and phantasmagorias.
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