Tomas Mendoza

Fascinated by the circular movement, the painter Tomás Mendoza animates the figures of his canvas, in the manner of Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel. The horizon line emphasizes an upward movement, while directional symbols enlarge the contours and the color draws the suspended air between powerful forces, like an afternoon sinking into space. A feeling of dizziness permeates the gaze as one approaches and becomes absorbed by this "asteroid field". Like the attributes of "myths", the work appropriates the hidden meanings of objects, as many words from a surrealist dictionary: ropes, exclamation points, ladders, nails, mirrors, arches, nets, light bulbs, spheres, scissors, knives… Before this reincarnated Dalí and Bosch, one perceives passages where figures and objects tell transcendent fragments of their existence, orbiting in an "instant" immortalized by painting, by the idea.