Untitled (Moscatel)Acrylic on canvas
88 x 96 cm
2006
The "Menaced Details" is a series of paintings that I started in 2006 and still goes on. I have been collecting labels of daily consumed products (beer, chocolate, etc.) that catch my attention due to their graphics, whose aesthetics don't seem to belong to a world that values impact, instantaneity, velocity and high quality. I am interested in details that imitate hand made illustrations, heraldic figures, little laces, bones and ornaments, that opposed to the catchy condensated logo, demand time and attention to be contemplated. This details seem threteaned by iconic references to pleasure and immediacy, and by appropiating, enlarging and reproducing this imagens I intend to stop and take time reflecting on them. This iconic elements act as traces of memory that show in a visual way some characteristics, shifts and desires of Colombian economy, culture and society.
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