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The Relevance of the Beautiful

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The Relevance of the Beautiful /   Tropical Observatory *SOL20251007 Mixed media / Polyester resin  29 X 31 X 28 centimeters (11X12X11 inches) 2025. This year, 2025, has been a very productive and immensely creative one for me. I am in my early 50s, and I must say I find myself with an extreme urgency to create, while simultaneously feeling the need to catalog the things I have made and reflect on them. This work is named: "The Relevance of the Beautiful"  Within this work, the silhouette of a chrysalis signifies a profound process of transformation and rebirth: the dissolution of the former self in order to allow the emergence of the new. Though this metamorphosis is frequently arduous, it is indispensable for attaining fulfillment and entering a more mature phase of life, embodying the potential for growth and resilience at a critical juncture. Embedded in the surface of the chrysalis, a constellation of ping-pong balls introduces a metaphor of play as a fundamental di...

"The Fall of the Rebel Angels" * PBPB20220831

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Detail of "El Transas" 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. On the left side of this composition we find a disgusting, abominable and anonymous being. This monster (Inspired from a relative) represents 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...