ARCHETYPES AND CODES OF REPRESENTATION

Work produced between 1987 and 1992

Pre-Columbian archetypes and codes of representation is a series of paintings produced between 1987 and 1990 in which I employed imagery from different American pre-Columbian cultures, appealing to the aesthetic reference of urban visual and ludic movement.

This procedure gave place to a complex kind of collage that picked up diverse signs and images from the art world, sometimes reproducing them literally, others overlapping and integrating them in order to recover them in an open painting that is capable of recognizing all manifestations without belonging to any of them.

In the end, the plot turns out to be much more complex when the eye chooses, selects and combines in the search of meaning.

This way, the pictorial surface is the meeting point for the empirical, spontaneous point of view, and the encoded point of view; between an objective and a subjective outlook on representation.

Leonel Luna