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Exhibition | July 27 - August 26, 2023
“I consider that it is important to explore creativity in new ways that are outside of your comfort zone, leading to the experience of ‘trial and error.’ I free my mind to follow my imagination and let my ideas run with the flow of emerging creativity. Nature, time, and the beauty of the human mind are aspects that motivate creativity.
My imagination takes me to mysterious places, and art allows me to share those other realities, as I seek to draw the unconscious into consciousness through surreal images, to offer access to the subconscious.”
About the artist
Born in 1970 in the mining city of Oruro, located in the mid-western part of Bolivia. From an early age, he had a passion for drawing, motivated by his uncle Enrique Suaznabar, a professional photographer who lived in the same city. Focusing solely on drawings as the main motor of his creations, he has shown a great interest in the colour and began exploring watercolors, pastels, and colored pencils. His focus was painting insects, animals, houses and portraits on paper and cardboards. Marcelo developed a great amount of his work, as Oruro possesses mystical energy in its surroundings and has a strong folkloric tradition; its carnival was declared by UNESCO as Oral and Intangible Patrimony of Humanity.
His early works were heavily focused on religious themes. This first phase in his career was influenced by colonial baroque artists such as Bolivian. Then he became engaged in the exploration of a more subtle symbolic language. The landscape of his childhood and the memory of the scenery follows him– it is magical with great power and energy. The images in Marcelo’s paintings are whimsical, complex, absurd and surreal. These images appear to him randomly and he sketches these to not lose the phantasm.
