Alex Matamoros, Design Center of the Americas’ director of design services and design professionals, has just a few more exhibits to share with us from his recent experience at Art Wynwood, the International Contemporary Art Fair in Miami.
By Alex Matamoros
Before leaving, I fell in love with one last exhibit that I couldn't exclude. Lluis Barba's Lausberg Contemporary Gallery of Ontario was utterly moving. Lluis, an artist from Spain, incorporates images painted by the masters of art with today’s elements, artist, signs, and bar codes. This type of collage features so many images that every square inch has something interesting!
Luis has said of his work, "The incorporation of characters in the works of the past emerge while thinking about how our brain has the ability to receive external references. As the image we receive moves across the retina, it arrives with us as an absolute fragmentation at the hypothalamus, where it reconstructs a virtually reasonable image, depending on the evolutionary parameters of a sort."
Luis says he gets out-of-context elements from reality to displace them into another, alternate reality. He is known for using irony and implicit messages in his work, like the “global mestization” in society. "In my works tourists attend not only at museums, but they are also incorporated in works with the metaphoric involvement that this fact implies, establishing a dialogue more direct between those who observe and those who admire," he said.
If you missed Miami's recent International Contemporary Art Fair this year, make sure to be there next year. Art Wynwood is an amazing event that I will be attending for many years to come.
