By Yudi Kravzov
Endowed with realism and a profound message, playing with reality and time, the work of Joel Corrales and Rafael Cauduro will be in dialogue starting February 4 at the Irma Appel Gallery, where the exhibition “Joel and Rafael” will be inaugurated.
Both artists integrate historical elements with symbolism while relating mass culture, luxury, consumption, and sumptuousness.
“In all my work, there is a lie and illusion, products of the manipulation I make of time in my paintings. I mix materials to offer one half that is real and another half that is an illusion. I am interested in having a critical attitude toward reality. I have always been on the other side of the trap, on the side of illusion.”-Rafael Cauduro.
“Conformism until the determined awakening, sleeping giants, absent, placid, with eyes resolutely closed as if the conformist inertia of all of us who inhabit the earth could be adding up into a single giant that imposingly represents the sleeping inertia of humanity devoid of will. Each giant represents a multitude in itself; it is the summed inertia of all of us who inhabit the earth. Conformism is to accept the unacceptable and to submit without complaint. My giants surrender to reality and migrate, by choice, to a dream world.”-Joel Corrales.
“His works stun those who contemplate them; he makes us see that we are before a world that inevitably falls apart.” -Irma Appel
Irma Appel Gallery
El Vergel. Alborada 17
37880 San Miguel de Allende.
