GUSTAVO ORTIZ

ON TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN

SOLO EXHIBITION ON NOW at PURE EVIL GALLERY

Following the exploration of human forms of my previous work, ‘On Top of the Little Mountain’ turns to focus on the landscapes and settings which they habit. This exhibition of abstract, other-worldly mountainous landscapes is inspired by the expansiveplains of my birthplace. In this setting in which the horizon is interrupted only rarely by the vertical, traces of the mounds marking the sites of former indigenous lookouts provide evidence of a historical impulse to gain some elevation over this desolatesetting. Evoking these mounds which haunt the landscapes of my imagination, the works in this exhibition conjure up a sense of nostalgia for place; for sites known and lost, or places unexperienced and nevertheless longed for with a sentimental and wistful affection. The sentinels and mountain-folk that inhabitthese landscapes express a clear, far-sighted vision, and a desire to see and go beyond the confines of vast, empty distance. Under their watchful guardianship, myriad colours and forms accumulate in fantastical landscapes.  

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