By Margaret Failoni
Taken from a memo written by Balthus, which greatly impressed Manuela Generali, the artist has chosen “Atisbar la Luz” as the title for this up coming exhibition of a series of Zen-like landscape paintings depicting lone swimmers and deserted fields, bodies of water and grasslands.
Generali is a well known painter with an international list of exhibitions and numerous collectors.
Her work has usually consisted of dramatic brush stroke paintings with dramatic chiaro/scuro use of defined color.
It is therefore an interesting change to a more introspective imagery in these new works.
“Territorios Pictóricos: Obras de Sergio Garval”
By Margaret Failoni
Once again, the Intersección Gallery is honored to exhibit a series of new works by the Tapatio artist Sergio Garval. Garval’s extraordinary painterly technique of dramatic brush strokes and the uncanny ability to portray emotions in such vivid color and nuances is the stuff of masters. Most of his more apocalyptic period paintings are so beautifully painted that it makes the drama in the work not only acceptable but desired. Many of his subjects are a not so veiled critique of the consumer society so prevalent in today’s world.
He can paint a raging bull with the face of a politician, a decaying bishop in a super-market cart like something for sale, a beautiful, tempting prostitute wrapped in the national flag, and so on. He’s a little kinder in this exhibition. A beautiful, disheveled woman is floating in a sea of fruit debris, harking back to his apocalypse series…and more. Garval is equally gifted in sculpture. He has recently finished two important commissions for monumental sculptures which will remain in Guadalajara, his home town. There seems to be nothing he can’t do, and does so well. His work is part of many museum collections and in some very important private collections. A beautiful, large coffee table book on the artist’s work can be seen at the gallery.
Cocktail opening Saturday June 4th, from 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Galería Intersección, Fábrica La Aurora, San Miguel de Allende
