Láquesis

In Greek mythology Lachesis is the second of the three moirai. She determines the future of the people and, therefore, the duration of life corresponding to each person. She decides the length of the thread corresponding to each human life. In this canvas the threads have been replaced by wires.

Oil on canvas

80×60 cm | 31’5×23’6 in

Blood Meridian (Meridiano de sangre)

Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West is a 1985 epic novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, classified under the Western genre.
My father’s generation was born into the nationalist and fascist dictatorship of Francisco Franco. But ironically they grew up watching American westerns on television. Since I was a child I have the memory of my father watching those kinds of movies that didn’t interest me much. However when I was in college I discovered Cormac McCarthy’s books and fell in love with his storytelling and twilight Western vibe. Years later a video game called Red Dead Redemption came out, which gives great importance to its script and was a great advance within the world of video games. Apparently it was based on the same book by McCarthy that I had read years ago and which gives the title to this canvas.
With this work I try to talk about how culture or art can be a tool of power and domination. Through the western, people from all over the world and all ages have created a mistaken and idealized concept of a historical event totally foreign to them.

Acrylic and spray on canvas

190×155 cm | 74’8×61 in

Don Quijote

Don Quixote de la mancha is probably the most important work in occidental literature. I do not know for sure if Miguel de Cervantes was its true author. His biography is incompatible with the writing of a work like Don Quixote (In addition to a cultured adventure, it is a book full of quotes and references to other books that he could doubtfully read or possess throughout his life). Furthermore, the portrait that Juan de Jáuregui supposedly made of him cannot be Cervantes. Don Quixote is a satire on chivalric tales. These tales inspired the majority of Spanish conquistadors during the 15th century, however the majority were illiterate. At present, reading Don Quixote in old Spanish is a difficult task (the updated version of Andrés Trapiello came out very recently) and yet no one doubts that Don Quixote and Cervantes are the pillars of our literature. So since I studied the biography of Van Gogh I have always been very curious as to how the myths of the artist figure are generated. But above all, I am very interested in how art and culture survive through time and transforms into a symbol with great power. Even if you haven’t read the book, your concept of the world you live in depends on it. (same as algorithms)