Elaborate, imaginary worlds open up across the younger characters in José Luis Ceña's oil work. Brushy, scattered and generally fuzzy across the edges, its protagonists don selfmade costumes and traverse forts made from sheets and bins.
“I feel that approaching the theme of youngsters extra deeply in my work happened because of having my very own two youngsters,” the artist tells Colossal. “Residing with youngsters makes you understand points you thought had been forgotten.”
Ceña focuses on the sport to light up the distinction between the innocence of youth and what he describes as “the decay of the world we go away behind.”
In his newest collection, paper tales, youngsters put on masks and traverse an imaginary, cardboard world. Made out of on a regular basis supplies, the scenes are reworked into fantasy lands filled with animals, dinosaurs and attention-grabbing mysteries.
The psychology of costumes and concealment takes on a metaphorical position in Ceña's work, reflecting how folks conform to the reality of maturity and society. “We put on (these masks) on daily basis, attempting to challenge a picture of ourselves that, normally, doesn’t align with the truth we reside,” says the artist. “That is particularly evident in our use of social media.”
Vibrant landscapes are sometimes devoid of depth, as if reduce from paper and layered to type a stage-like setting. These flattened scenes “recommend that these worlds are destined to dissolve, to fold in on themselves,” says Ceña, including that “loneliness is a silent protagonist.”
The work featured right here was not too long ago considered with Galerie LeRoyer, and you’ll discover extra of Ceña's work on Instagram.
