The Argentine artist unaccured in the Paseo de las Artes Duhau his exhibition “Focus Group”, 37 works that are based on Round characters that seem to undergo a selection of human resources.
Mariano Molina presents a set of 37 works entitled at the Paseo de las Artes “Focus Group”focal group, qualitative research technique that consists in gathering a small group of selected people to answer very used questions in human resources.
But this virtuous artist in the use of the airbrush does not try to gather his characters, many times in a round, to ask them questions about a business organization. They are expectant, scattered on the canvas, anonymous beings, figures that seem to have no identity.
Molina Part of photographs, his intention is not narrative, so the viewer must make his own interpretation. He explains that he projects the image on the canvas and applies layers of paint, splash it with a liquid rubber, “Tapo all in white”hence the Dripping, in some works very Jackson Pollockresulting in a mixture of abstraction and figuration.
In 2009, thanks to a stay financed by Leverhulme Trust, Molina He settled in Leicester, England, and worked with the Argentine neuroscientist Rodrigo Quian QuirogaBioengineering professor, internationally acclaimed by its discovery of a type of neurons that are activated, in an abstract way, in reaction to different images of family or celebrities, such as Jeniffer Aniston either Halle Berry.
The work of Quiroga It indicates that it is possible to investigate what people are seeing from their neuronal activity. From there, that both scientists and artists have a fascination with visual perception and the effects that artists produce intuitively and that scientists can explain.
Molina Only at age 24 he entered Fine Arts, studied graphic design and advertising illustration at the Garaycochea drawing school. He made seminars with Luis Felipe Noéand points out that his career began there, “A break for me”. Since then he began to show his work, he made exhibitions at the OSDE Foundation on crowds that was on the street and in the limits with abstraction. It was selected for the 19th UADE Meeting of Visual Arts, in which in 2014 he won the third prize.
In these works it works on the concept of masses, crowds and anonymous bodies. Its technique: photography, graphic design, painting and the airbrush.
As a characteristic, in the work of Molina There is nothing superfluous, they are austere, we would say laconic. Either in which the characters are in a round, as in those we already point out, in others they appear scattered. The artist points out that although part of photographs, his intention is to decontextualize them, with the aim of turning them into timeless, ambiguous images.
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Source: Ambito
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