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Innocence taken away at the age of 14, especially when not on the look-out for its corruption is nothing short of a loss. However, the artist was not saddened by it, nor did he ever regret it. He was lured by sensual women into the deep and ever-surprising delights of sex. Not too bad for a hormonal adolescent. On the other hand, his lack of restriction in physical enjoyment starting that fateful night at the brothel led him to a life of carnal debauchery. Thus begging the question: How much is too much to satiate our earthly pleasures? https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bd8b0d3c258b484a6b45fba/t/5bf59d19352f5361ac90cb05/1544483138057/12.+Mettle+Brute.JPG MEX TOUR METTLE BRUTE The artist discovered the concept of having a “spiritual animal” early on in his mystical quest. One winter, he was fortunate enough to have access to a closed cavern in southern France with ancestral paintings. There, he had an epiphany of how we have had the need to express ourselves since thousand of years ago as well a need for spiritual nourishment. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bd8b0d3c258b484a6b45fba/t/5bf59ac6aa4a99960c675cc0/1544483148003/3.+Ode+to+Onus..JPG MEX TOUR ODE TO ONUS From a very early age and due to a childhood full of hardships, the artist knew we all had to remove layers of emotional wounds in order to renew ourselves. Ode to Onus is a hymn to celebrating the artist’s scars; accepting the suffering while appreciating the growth that stems from every difficulty. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bd8b0d3c258b484a6b45fba/t/5bf59ce0032be47550482c95/1544483186093/11.+Nitty+Gritty.JPG MEX TOUR NITTY-GRITTY Merriam Webster defines “nitty-gritty” as “what is essential and basic: specific practical details”. The artist knew full well that only focusing on spiritual awakening and meditation was not going to save his career; he understood that he needed a much more pragmatic approach to his art, all the while retaining and being faithful to the very essence of his craft. . https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bd8b0d3c258b484a6b45fba/t/5bf59c1e4fa51adde982a65d/1544483122148/8.+1964.JPG MEX TOUR 1964. Deciding to turn over a new leaf, the artist reconnected with his Catholic upbringing as well as starting a spiritual path he searched for in Mayan teachings in Yucatán. 1964 is the year of his birth, and this piece honors his life as a conscious renaissance. The Mayans were formidable mathematicians and are even credited with being one of the first civilizations of introducing the zero into numerology. The artist was also attracted to this culture’s spiritual drive, and thrived with it in his newfound grace. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bd8b0d3c258b484a6b45fba/t/5bf59c4103ce64f4ab168eae/1544483177182/9.+asomatous+rollout.JPG MEX TOUR ASOMATOUS ROLLOUT Continuing with his spiritual streak, the artist delved deeper into sacred meanings of many ancient cultures. This piece is a golden frame which holds together the word YOSH, an infinity sign and.... The golden quality of the frame represents the sacred element which has always been revered as strong, holding our core values well in our center, while YOSH (You Only See Here) and the Infinity sign remind us that we must not fall into materialism. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bd8b0d3c258b484a6b45fba/t/5bf59a374fa51adde9828209/1544483078195/1.+Affix+to+the+coeval.JPG MEX TOUR AFFIX TO THE COEVAL ORB The artist conveys the importance of the here and now with a plug protruding from the wall onto the spectator. The orb on the left, to which the plug is connected, is Saturn. This planet represents time which is in and of itself never-ending, having a coeval quality with any deity. Saturn is the Roman god of regeneration, of wealth, and above all: Liberation. The paradox of letting go and living in the present place and time is that one must also be connected, or affixed, if you will, to “something”: that spiritual side which we all have and need to grow as humans. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bd8b0d3c258b484a6b45fba/t/5bf59b0d0e2e7291d05a87cd/1544483155574/5.+Proper+little+swine.JPG MEX TOUR PROPER LITTLE SWINE A nickname given to the artist by a former girlfriend, “Proper Little Swine” is the description of a smolderingly charming and handsome young man with a voracious carnal appetite. The deconstructed portrayal of a pig seems innocent and fails to warn about the dangers of pleasure’s excess. The artist does not regret nor he celebrates his ill behavior as a philandering heartbreaker. He simply portrays what his hilarious surname represents. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bd8b0d3c258b484a6b45fba/t/5bf59aecaa4a99960c676064/1544483104662/4.+The+annihilation+of+brooding.JPG MEX TOUR THE ANNIHILATION OF BROODING Self-pity is a worthless trip down a long spiral leading to an abysmal fate. The artist understood that, in order to be happy, wallowing in martyrdom is not the answer, but a deathtrap. This piece conveys the phrase: “Happiness is a choice” and to reach that blissful state, we must take a hard look inside ourselves, a deep introspection by deconstructing ourselves to reach the heart of what ails us. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bd8b0d3c258b484a6b45fba/t/5bf59c05aa4a99960c67747d/1544483169061/7.+Prestige%2C+adrift..JPG MEX TOUR PRESTIGE, ADRIFT Ernest Hemingway aptly described Paris as a “Moveable Feast”. The City of Lights proved to be a fabulous playing field for the artist and his devious ways, providing him with much pleasure. However, he lost himself in his own game and wound-up with a lost reputation, including his professional credibility. As he sadly found out, being the eternal Enfant Terrible did not a turn-out to be fun. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bd8b0d3c258b484a6b45fba/t/5bf59c8c2b6a28025bd0c813/1544483130074/10.+Paradisus.JPG MEX TOUR PARADISUS The tree of life is the genesis of our enlightenment. It is human salvation as well as our damnation. The artist so masterfully created this irregular and beautiful tree by applying the extensive botanical knowledge he learned at the monastery where he was raised. He wanted to convey the good and the bad of being conscious rather than blissfully ignorant. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bd8b0d3c258b484a6b45fba/t/5bf59bc4575d1fb912a61ffe/1544483113903/6.+Banal+contentment.JPG MEX TOUR BANAL CONTENTMENT This work reflects on the human need to fill emptiness with banality. The artist, ever the good time seeker, knows the primrose path of hedonism all too well. Consisting of trash within holes in an old wall, “Banal Contentment” reflects just how every orifice will be filled, it is our choice if it will be with rubbish or with fruitful ideals and actions. https://www.delamerituarte.com/interviews-news daily 0.75 2019-05-09 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bd8b0d3c258b484a6b45fba/t/5bf574966d2a7333a5102201/1557439307550/IMP+FAKE+N+2.jpg INTERVIEWS & NEWS https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bd8b0d3c258b484a6b45fba/t/5bf574604ae2376294e6e737/1557439283892/FAKE+NEWS+ALTA.jpg INTERVIEWS & NEWS https://www.delamerituarte.com/contacto daily 0.75 2018-12-10 https://www.delamerituarte.com/nyc-tour daily 0.75 2018-12-10 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bd8b0d3c258b484a6b45fba/t/5bf596210ebbe815f4200c6f/1544483055668/14.purview+on+keeness+.png NYC TOUR PURVIEW OF KEENNESS This piece is almost a signature of anonymity. It is a multi layered Meta reference to this collection of pieces itself, this non-gallery. In a work that is definitively 'outside the box' both literally and figuratively, in every way, here is a simple and functional box of its own purpose that here finds a different purpose, with something as simple as a stencil and a word, and one that could be perfectly convincing and unnoticeable as an industrial element, yet, once highlighted, is inescapably apparent as artifice, as art, in the congruence of the word and type and the thing itself. As if all these pieces were one painting in a gallery with no walls, this is his signature, with no name, just a reminder that, here, he is the star - his own unique redefinition of the concept, a star with no aspiration for fame or success, just a desire for a moment to shine in the experience of others. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bd8b0d3c258b484a6b45fba/t/5bf596210ebbe815f4200c5d/1544482970109/Tilted+quimera NYC TOUR TILDED QUIMERA Memories of the artists childhood are used as inspiration for this piece where their imaginative aspects are both suggested and inherently, inevitably elusive. Calling back to one of the artist’s earliest memories, hiding under the kitchen table and gazing up at patterns and scratches in the wood that would both form like clouds into specific symbols or other times take on a mythological significance, the memory took on special poignancy due to his creative aspirations and that the imagery could never be viewed the same way again, that privileged perspective of a child that cannot be returned to, and here those same images are displayed in plain sight, for any eyes, but without their special significance or memory driven meaning. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bd8b0d3c258b484a6b45fba/t/5bf596210ebbe815f4200c5f/1544482998745/Sojourn NYC TOUR SOJOURN This evokes the fleeting nature of human moments amidst a sense of physical, almost architectural permanence. When the artist worked in construction and made deep affectionate bonds with co-workers. Time had its own, unreal systems, with hours of monotony blurring into a single moment and memory selecting only those human interactions of cigarette breaks and coffees accumulating into the real experiences that accrued meaning from that time. The stack of collected cups calls to mind that such moments are valueless if not shared, and that in such context, nothing is really trash. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bd8b0d3c258b484a6b45fba/t/5bf596210ebbe815f4200c65/1544483005954/Perpetual+dachshund NYC TOUR PERPETUAL DACHSHUND Passion and profound attachment are here displaced into a form utterly sterile and functional, yet with an inescapable playfulness- the piece is a tribute to the artist’s beloved Weiner dog, with special meaning in that the notoriously playful dachshund was purchased as a test to examine if he was capable of being a father figure. The artist had him for 5 years, after a year of dating his soon to become wife, one morning she announced she was pregnant, and sadly, that morning, inexplicably, Rufus had passed away. The two totally contradictory feelings inspired the artist for this piece, and also compelled him to Name his son Rufino. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bd8b0d3c258b484a6b45fba/t/5bf596210ebbe815f4200c63/1544482976611/STRIATION+AND+BAIRN NYC TOUR STRIATION AND BAIRN This is a meditation on perspective both in form and content. It is a sideways close-up of the striped shirt of a baby, with a little of his belly showing. There is a baby sock resting on him and a mark of chocolate. The artist got this idea playing with his one year old, full of life and energy, and was inspired by the power of this impression on him- Just as our brains are wired to instantly recognize a face even with the slightest visual cues, for him this image is instantly recognizable and powerful, and he is exploring how far this can translate to an objective audience. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bd8b0d3c258b484a6b45fba/t/5bf596210ebbe815f4200c69/1544483020289/GRIEVOUS+WEANING NYC TOUR GRIEVOUS WEANING The artist’s wife stopped breastfeeding Rufino quite late. By the age of three, after some complex, irresolvable and deeply personal debates, the artist and his wife decided it was enough- this process of transition of both real and symbolic nourishment and tenuous separation from security, became one of the most difficult process the artist has observed. The piece speaks of the love of a mother not wanting to share for the an idealized concept of ‘good’, and a little boy who doesn’t understand the change and takes it as a lack of love. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bd8b0d3c258b484a6b45fba/t/5bf596210ebbe815f4200c6d/1544483042348/12.+The+purview+on+concealment.jpg NYC TOUR THE MAINSPRING OF CONCEALMENT The mainspring of concealment. The artist has created a remarkable optical illusion that speaks to identity and artifice. Copying the texture, color, and material of the actual painted building. The artist has then recreated a section and constructed the appearance of it peeling off and revealing a false later of paint and foundation, one that never really existed. In the same way, people can often reveal something deep of themselves, creating the feeling that you are learning their depths, when really it may only be hiding a deeper artifice, or more layers of false identity under the guise of openness. The artist refuses to share what personal experience has inspired this work. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bd8b0d3c258b484a6b45fba/t/5bf596210ebbe815f4200c61/1542817417888/Foliage+Abatiment NYC TOUR FOLIAGE ABATEMENT OF THE ANIMA Here the artist resembled a sunset with the numbers 316/ 34. Here he plays a game of numerology, if we add the numbers on the sides we get 10/7, a date! On The 7th of October when the artist was 34 years he lost his best friend on a street fight, on the street that he lived in. He was never going to walk that street in the same way, never again. A few days after as he walked home watching his feet as he walked, he looked up and saw the most beautiful sunset he had ever seen, he knew it was his friend saying “hey dude, I’m here, its ok”. And the next two months he lived a very deep grief that changed his life in a beautiful way, a 180 turn, he changed his way of live completely, by New Years Eve he was a totally different person. 365 (days in the year)- 316 (the numbers which also add to 10, October) = 49. Almost the amount of days that took his metamorphosis. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bd8b0d3c258b484a6b45fba/t/5bf596210ebbe815f4200c6b/1544483027309/9.+Cobalt+Gonfalon%2C+Cardinal+Gonfalon.jpg NYC TOUR COBALT GONFALON, CARDINAL GONFALON This piece represents a game the artist used to play as a child with his friends, which included the use of blue flags and red flags. This piece, albeit simple, is of extraordinary importance since it reminds him of the happy times he had when young. It reminds us all to look on the bright side. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bd8b0d3c258b484a6b45fba/t/5bf596210ebbe815f4200c67/1544483013190/Reminiscence+of+aprehension NYC TOUR REMINICENSE OF APREHENSION The process of clocking in to work, represented here by an expectant plastic bag awaiting its function, speaks to many of his key themes- His personal memories transposed out of context of the personal into the objective, to be reinterpreted subjectively; the transformation of space by expectation and cues, here arousing a sense of functionality in a place where there is none; and the questions of an unfinished story. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bd8b0d3c258b484a6b45fba/t/5bf596210ebbe815f4200c5b/1544482901585/1.+In+credence+in+modus.jpg NYC TOUR Memories of the artists childhood are used as inspiration for this piece where their imaginative aspects are both suggested and inherently, inevitably elusive. Calling back to one of the artist’s earliest memories, hiding under the kitchen table and gazing up at patterns and scratches in the wood that would both form like clouds into specific symbols or other times take on a mythological significance, the memory took on special poignancy due to his creative aspirations and that the imagery could never be viewed the same way again, that privileged perspective of a child that cannot be returned to, and here those same images are displayed in plain sight, for any eyes, but without their special significance or memory driven meaning. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bd8b0d3c258b484a6b45fba/t/5bf596210ebbe815f4200c71/1544483033912/10.+The+commendable+and+the+atroious.jpg NYC TOUR THE COMMENDABLE AND THE ATROCIOUS During his youth, the artist liked to have fun like many a teenager and young adult. Nevertheless, his strict grandmother reproached his jovial behavior by accusing him of being evil when in fact he was nothing but kind and helpful to anyone who crossed his path. Due to these two sides of his life, he developed a dual self-image: an atrocious young man for breaking with puritan tradition, and a kind, good-humors chap. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bd8b0d3c258b484a6b45fba/t/5bf596210ebbe815f4200c73/1544483048638/13.+Disintive+interrumption. NYC TOUR DISINCENTIVE INTERRUPTION This unique piece highlights the artist toying with intent and communication. An introspective and with drawn boy, his childhood was marked by time alone in bed, in contemplation, as time passed by. For him, this piece was designed to take advantage of his unique emotions with an awareness of the universal- He cannot view this image without thinking of his lost childhood, his lack of the conventional playfulness it evokes, but also presents it knowing no one can know his feeling, his interpretation- There is something inescapable in the trapped, once used balloon that speaks of the fleeting moments of childhood, but his are his own. https://www.delamerituarte.com/aspentour daily 0.75 2020-02-28 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bd8b0d3c258b484a6b45fba/t/5e596b24b4b2d054f3daadc8/1582918458344/IMG-4010+%281%29.JPG ASPEN TOUR