LUIS IGNACIO CARÍAS

teresarius: promotors d'art has the pleasure of presenting the work of this multidisciplinary artist of Venezuelan origin that lives in Catalonia since year 2000. It will be the first time that we will be able to appreciate together the painting, sculpture and drawing of Carías, as well as be able to listen to his music, since besides versatile artist and graphic designer, he has just recorded his first record of own compositions in the genre World Fusión in the study Mas Silvestre of Martin Probst in Gaüses, Girona.

It has to be said that from 1988 Luis Ignacio Carías has not stopped making individual and collective exhibitions and since he was 16 years old he has been playing with musicians of every kind in South America and Europe.

As Myriam Robles, Director of the Museum Sacro of Caracas, affirmed Luis Ignacio Carías expresses in his artworks elementary realities that he himself works without previous outlines in a process within, without hesitations, with a great security, leaving sideways the academic knowledge for guiding himself by the intuition in search of a lyrical minimalism loaded of spirituality. The absence of the color in some cases, the presence of textures, the fabric, are the elements constitutive of a similar plastic language on big figures of the contemporary art.

The work of Luis Ignacio Carías is an invitation to enjoy the beauty of the plundered one and to attempt to appeal and to experiment our own territory of freedoms.

Private View: Thursday 15th of November at 7pm

Dates: 15th to 30th of November 2007
Opening times: Monday to Friday from 10 to 14h and from 16 to 19h.
Saturdays by appointment
13 - 15 pral., Francolí St, 08006 Barcelona How to get there

Born in Barcelona in 1947, he was pupil of the Art teacher Victor Esteban Ripaux. In 1970 he initiates a journey that leads him to live in different places: Canary Islands, France, Belgium and Holland. Between 1970 and 1976 he settles in the South of Italy where he lives together with the seafaring world and peasant of the place. Different spaces and galleries start to show his works, which are well received by the public and the critique. In 1995 goes to Mexico, where remains until 2002. At present he lives and works in El Raval, his natal neighborhood, in Barcelona.

As the Italian art critic Loredana Tristante affirmed, the artworks of Chamayou are between representation and abstraction, leading the spectator to the improvement of the physical and sensorial limits, which once after another impose themselves, to discover the mystery that there is behind. It is a rich and dense painting, made of overlaying surfaces, of personal signs and of colors that take hold of the canvas without hesitations. The artist transports these coordinates to his fantastic world, where we refind them impregnated with a special symbolic potential.

Mysterious figures, in silence, of soft factions and tenuous colors, give life to a magical reality. They captivate the look of the spectator and expand it beyond any visible limit, referring to an almost fundamental world: the immense spiritual universe of the artist. Indisputable protagonists are especially the surrounding colors, dense and corporal. The colors of the lands that he has known. Through the connection among color and stroke, both ones originated by an internal instinct, the painting is configured almost as a writing deprived of the painter and his picture turns like this into the record of a moment of life. The stroke delineates a thought, the color interprets it. The emotions are just suggested and last what the artist grants in the fast succession of internal impressions. Therefore the journey continues without pauses and without doubts.