Sebasti谩n Hidalgo: Encounters with Neptune
Sebasti谩n Hidalgo works and lives in the sacred and ancient city of Cholula, Mexico, a location deeply resonant with the work that he creates. The artist鈥檚 studio is flooded with natural light, surrounded by books, historical reference images, and handwritten notes with words, numbers, and sketches taped to the wall. Nearby lies the imminent presence of the active Popocat茅petl volcano and the Great Pyramid of Cholula. These natural and human-made structures shroud the city in geological and historical energy, deeply tied to the history, myths, and culture of the city and its people. Cholula is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and one of the oldest still-inhabited cities in the Americas.
The exhibition, entitled Encounters with Neptune, is made up of a body of work that revolves around two main concepts: chaos and mandalas. Both concepts function as starting points for generating organizational systems that reflect different parts of our psyche. Through these paintings, Hidalgo is interested in influencing the tides of the mind, in the way an image is read and understood. By using both poles 鈥� together and related to each other 鈥� the mind is activated, going from one side of the range to the other. One pole plunges into confusion and chance, into a dark zone; the other builds symmetrical structures that suggest a certain coherence and lucidity, its direction points and develops towards and from the center. But this apparent divergence eventually leads to the same place, both paths can unify and deceive. Neptune acts as an uncomfortable figure that invites us into the unknown, invisible but present, both in its role as the farthest known planet and as a mythological being. Neptune is a symbol, a deity, a ruler of the seas, and their impulses. The set of works in the exhibition imagines internal dialogues and silent encounters with this uncomfortable figure.
Hidalgo writes, 鈥淎s a whole, I seek to balance temperatures, atmospheres, temporalities, elements. So I can think of, for example: relating wood with electricity, or an ethereal atmosphere with some metal, or joining a fragment of a tepalcate (a piece of pre-Hispanic clay pot) with some Greek mythology and computer elements. The result is partly constructed and partly unexpected. That is how the titles of the pieces and the set are manifested, I like to think of them as book covers and think, what is this book about, what does it contain, what is it called? Images are taken to the plane of words and concepts and generate new relationships that shoot us in some direction, where perhaps we reflect ourselves.鈥�
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Sebasti谩n Hidalgo works and lives in the sacred and ancient city of Cholula, Mexico, a location deeply resonant with the work that he creates. The artist鈥檚 studio is flooded with natural light, surrounded by books, historical reference images, and handwritten notes with words, numbers, and sketches taped to the wall. Nearby lies the imminent presence of the active Popocat茅petl volcano and the Great Pyramid of Cholula. These natural and human-made structures shroud the city in geological and historical energy, deeply tied to the history, myths, and culture of the city and its people. Cholula is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and one of the oldest still-inhabited cities in the Americas.
The exhibition, entitled Encounters with Neptune, is made up of a body of work that revolves around two main concepts: chaos and mandalas. Both concepts function as starting points for generating organizational systems that reflect different parts of our psyche. Through these paintings, Hidalgo is interested in influencing the tides of the mind, in the way an image is read and understood. By using both poles 鈥� together and related to each other 鈥� the mind is activated, going from one side of the range to the other. One pole plunges into confusion and chance, into a dark zone; the other builds symmetrical structures that suggest a certain coherence and lucidity, its direction points and develops towards and from the center. But this apparent divergence eventually leads to the same place, both paths can unify and deceive. Neptune acts as an uncomfortable figure that invites us into the unknown, invisible but present, both in its role as the farthest known planet and as a mythological being. Neptune is a symbol, a deity, a ruler of the seas, and their impulses. The set of works in the exhibition imagines internal dialogues and silent encounters with this uncomfortable figure.
Hidalgo writes, 鈥淎s a whole, I seek to balance temperatures, atmospheres, temporalities, elements. So I can think of, for example: relating wood with electricity, or an ethereal atmosphere with some metal, or joining a fragment of a tepalcate (a piece of pre-Hispanic clay pot) with some Greek mythology and computer elements. The result is partly constructed and partly unexpected. That is how the titles of the pieces and the set are manifested, I like to think of them as book covers and think, what is this book about, what does it contain, what is it called? Images are taken to the plane of words and concepts and generate new relationships that shoot us in some direction, where perhaps we reflect ourselves.鈥�
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