Un pedazo de cielo, 2022

James Bonachea  

Soluble graphite on canvas. Image size: 31.5" Diameter. 

Frame size: 51.5” H x 40.5” W x 2” D in.

From the series Plato’s Heaven Soluble graphite on canvas The theory of Heaven is a novelty that Plato introduced to philosophy. Inspired by this concept, the artist proposes a series of works where I imagine and recreate possible worlds only existing in ideas and materialized through art as an ideal means to fable and materialize dissimilar visions of a Platonic space. In his theory, Plato puts perfect ideas in heaven, understanding that these ideas are geometric. He makes a scheme where he puts heaven, oblivion, the world, soul, and body, in a dynamic cycle where the body goes to the underworld and the soul returns to heaven, in that heaven of Platonic ideas, there are only perfect ideas, contrary to the earthly world that is imperfect and incomplete, to which we arrive for a forgetting process where we lose the ideal referent of Heaven, from this concept, we adopt the ideal. Platonic, which represents the desire to remember and return to the world of perfection and order.