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  The Fall of the Rebel Angels *PB20220831 Mixed media / Canvas   150 X 150 cms 2022. SOLD This painting is inspired in the painting of 1562 by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist, Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The subject represents the classical combat between the angels and demons in the medieval painting subjects. In the left side of this composition we find a disgusting, abominable and anonymous being. This monster represent the the wickedness of men, their criminal and evil side, the money fraudsters, criminals... Detail of "El Transas"  In the right side contains the portraits of  Virginia Woolf, Marie Curie, Nina Simone, Frida Kahlo and a goat that i have named  "Djali" in a Victor Hugo Homage.  This portraits share a new body  from the works of  Pieter Brueghel, and Luis Ricardo Falero. The Papyrus text is part of the ancient Saint Benedict Medal (1647) This religious object is also a Christian symbol of opening doors and opening difficult paths. Tradition ho

  Punk Baroque *PBLTG0721 (The Three Graces) 250X150cms mix/canvas. 2021 SOLD I was raised in a religious tradition, then a fascination for the ancient religious iconography was so obvious. Since young, far from being interested in the Sunday liturgy mass, my gaze was focused on those painful madonnas of  European origins, the Mexican baroque, its exaggeration in the images, the omnipresent figure of the Virgin of  Guadalupe but also the rituals from the indigenous traditions. Later I lived and studied in central Europe for 5 years. I was so obsessed with the Medieval cathedrals, the art of “Fin de siècle,“ the icons and the ancient jewelry but also the  popular culture, the mix from the different cultures, races and different music styles in those cosmopolitan cities. At first glance it may seem opposite but if we see this mix of processes with the eyes of dialectic maybe we can find a  kind of a synthesis, maybe a mix between Pink Floyd,  J. S. Bach with Cumbias. In this research I s