Peruvian artist Carlos Bardales’ solo show, titled La morada del Rayo y el Amaru, can be admired by the public in Lima through November 10, at Enlace Arte Contemporaneo.
The exhibition is made up of fourteen large-scale paintings and three object-installations. All these pieces thematically deal with the representation of lighting and its meaning in the history of art and culture: the artist showcases the results of a review on different traditions that have represented this element in multiple symbolic forms, always characterizing the forces of nature, expressing the idea of creation, origin, development... His search goes beyond the pure nostalgia for past times, so he doesn’t hesitate when it comes to recreating a contemporary language that gives continuity to primordial meanings that relate the comprehensive effort of mankind as such.
The curator for this exhibition, Jorge Villacorta, has said that: “It’s interesting the confidence shown by Carlos Bardales when he questioned the frontier between the intention of reflecting an image with figures and the intention of obtaining an image out of the abstract mark. The transformation of bodies in what, at first sight, seem to be signs of a spontaneous gesture acts, sheds light on his tendency to see in the mark of the very pigment a transfiguring potentiality”.
Enlace Arte Contemporaneo
Av. Pardo y Aliaga 676, San Isidro, Lima, Peru
Source: Press release
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