Untitled 22 From the Mexican Ry?an-ji Series, 2019

Francisco Larios  

This artwork is a mesmerizing square composition that invites viewers to explore its intricate details. The central design features a captivating geometric pattern, with lines and angles meticulously arranged to create an illusion of depth and movement. The artwork's golden hue exudes a sense of opulence and elegance, contrasting sharply with the bold black frame that encapsulates it. The precision of the linear patterns suggests a fusion of mathematical order and artistic creativity, challenging observers to contemplate beyond the surface. The piece stands out due to its ability to evoke both simplicity and complexity, engaging viewers in a visual dialogue that is both structured and fluid.

Untitled 22, 2019 by Francisco Larios Lacquer, Acrylic, oil, and gold leaf on MDF Deep Image Size: 9.5 in. H x 9.5 in. W Frame Size: 11.6 in. H x 11.6 in. W x 1.5 in. D One of a kind 

From the  Mexican Ryōan-ji Series

Ryōan-ji is the Japanese Zen temple in Kyoto, a monastery that gave rise to the idea of ​​the purely abstract Zen garden that inspired this series Francisco Larios’ works are done by hand with hundreds of layers of gold leaf. The artist’s goal is to allow the work to age along with the collector, which is why some works will appear unbalanced in color. Parts of the work will have different tones, burnish spots, or small, soft cracks.

* Francisco Larios works with painting, open concept drawing and 3D modeling software. In this series of works, postmodern influences are recognized by simplified forms, lines and sacred geometry. works are done by hand with hundreds of layers of gold leaf. The artist’s goal is to allow the work to age along with the collector, which is why some works will appear unbalanced on the color. Parts of the work will have different tones, burnish spots, or small, soft cracks. Francisco Larios practices painting, open-concept drawing and the use of software to create two and three-dimensional visual environments. In his imaginary, the post modern condition is achieved in terms that contemporary culture is the starting point for the elaboration of sceneries that manifest the return to sacred references, philosophical themes and immemorial fabulations. In Larios' work landscape is treated conceptually, sometimes, as the space where studies of the dreamlike, the bond between human beings and their surroundings, and the nature of objects develop; in other cases as the practice of graphic representation of mathematical, physical and musical principles which part from the idea of horizon as divisive line and as limit. Larios production is a poetic, ironic and reflexive exploration on the state of our relationship with faith, will and destiny.