| Untitled, 2008, oil on wood panel, 6.5 x 6.5 inches |
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Cervantes’s drawings are
part of a series of gathered images in an attempt to craft an ultimate
visual experience. The works are a collection of unsystematic iconographies
and arbitrary subjects, juxtaposed with reoccurring elements of composition.
Physics and mechanics, astronomy and landscape, architecture and science
fiction along with political and religious paraphernalia all collapse within
a chain as an ever-growing vocabulary. These pieces without a linear narrative
can be puzzling and lack a certain logical connectivity. Yet they reveal
unexpected associations and share an atmosphere of fragmentation, multiplicity
and material struggle.
Eduardo Cervantes was born in 1966 in Mexico, and now lives and works in
Brooklyn, New York since 2000. Cervantes studied art History at the Instituto
Cultural Cabanas (1988-90) in Guadalajara Jalisco Mexico. He received his
BA at -Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas-National School of Visual Arts
in Mexico City and was later awarded a grant by FONCA-National Foundation
for the Culture and the Arts in Mexico City (1993-94). |
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