Othon Castaneda: Recent Work
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- Thu April 1st, 2010 @ 5:00 PM
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AXIS Contemporary Art presents Recent Work by Othon Castaneda
Artist Statement
“The abstracted body and sensuality, naked in the force of its simplified form, reminds me of the geometry with which I determine my work. It is from the twisted and wavy forms of consecutive circularity that I intent to communicate my interest in the relations between the human body, nature and things and the continuous sensuality of life.
Everything is construction and setting; relationships between bodies and their context, between the skin-surfaces which describe them and their containers. The assignable limits always flow and the truth and conceptions of the world, move unexpectedly as that of art itself.
Thus, in the roundedness contrasted to the orthogonal, I try to communicate the change continuum; the constant in the ephemeral that describes us with endless force in itself and which describes the passing of time through flesh.
Volume and materiality, is the constant to construct my pieces like objects that refer to the emotional, to the sensual and to the erotic. The body and its physical, geometric, and existential possibilities, deprived of its daily forms, is the syntax whereupon I integrate my language to counterpoint between the natural and the artificial, project and improvisation, feminine and masculine, pain and pleasure, like complementary opposed, dichotomies . Thus I create sexed matter of abstract form, which is the continuity of the “me” who transform his context."
"...Space, reason, intervention, form and construction are aspects that I adopt to create my proposal, in a way so that I treat the bi-dimensional or three-dimensional work like architectures that show possible emotional states and that I project through natural or transformed matter”.
Visual artist and architect from the Habitat Faculty of the San Luis Potosi University in Mexico, Castaneda has worked extensively in printmaking, painting, installation and constructing techniques that he uses in his work as a visual artist and a scenery designer. He has exhibited more than 40 times since 1991.
