Birth of Art

Oil on Canvas, Rochester, March 2003

84cm x 101cm

Here, Guadalupe has again taken his ideas from his native Aztec culture. In this painting, you can see a kind of landscape, almost like clouds on the wind. But our ideas come like layers, with different interpretations, flying away like our imagination, so at the same time it is the head of an Aztec cat.

The black square represents a dark room, and the smaller square is an invitation to enter the “real world of art”; it also symbolises a card containing information that is otherwise far away from us. It’s like looking at the Earth from above: Art is the place in which we are living and where new life starts.

Exhibitions

• Notting Hill Talbot Road, Mar 03 to Dec 03
• Chelmsford 2, Mar 04 onwards