Group show: Enrique Minjares Padilla, Julien Devaux, Alejandro Pintado, Julio César Bohórquez

“Hell is empty, all the devils are here.”
William Shakespeare

Enrique Minjares Padilla. Meth Lab 3, 2021. Oil on canvas, 23 x 23 cm

The concept for this exhibition stems from the painting "Hell," a work by a student of Diego Rivera that has never been exhibited to the public. In it, the painter captures
a modern scene of the Christian conception of hell.
This exhibition renews this vision and places it within our current context. It brings together different perspectives of apocalyptic and dystopian scenarios that arise from the various questions surrounding contemporary life and its approach to a particularly ominous state of alienation. Loneliness, uncertainty, and destruction are everyday ideas and images that show us a world in decline, where political and ideological differences, and even deadly viruses, lead us to believe that we are living in times that portend an end.

Julien Devaux. Ver el mar y morir, 2019. Print on cotton paper. 80 x 61 cm

Alejandro Pintado. New Beginnings, 2021. Charcoal and acrylic on linen.
100 x 140 cm

Under this sentence, the feeling of hope and escape toward more positive futures emerges as an ironic idea of ​​a paradisiacal dream amidst a reality that feels closer to fiction.

Josué Morales