This mesmerizing surrealist painting stands as a definitive visual and narrative statement within the career of Mexican master Roberto Marquez. Executed in oil on canvas, the composition expertly blends magic realism with profound poetic introspection. The artwork features a barefoot male figure in striped trousers standing on a small rug amidst a desolate desert topography filled with native cacti and structural agaves. Above the quiet landscape, a radiant comet streaks across a deep blue sky dotted with delicate golden stars.
In Márquez's work, we observe a new openness to nature and landscape. Although a study of his paintings from the early 1980s to the present would reveal a predilection for undefined and often nebulous enclosed spaces (sometimes causing a certain sense of claustrophobia in the viewer), his most recent images have literally opened up to nature, where landscapes with both nocturnal and diurnal views predominate. Márquez is not an artist whose work has witnessed many periods of abrupt change. His art undergoes a gradual maturation. While drawing on past traditions, he carefully calibrates his creativity, breathing new life into traditional forms, constantly generating a distinctive visual vocabulary that matures with each new creation.
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Surrealist Painting - La Noche del Cometa, 1993. By Roberto Marquez
Roberto Marquez
La Noche del Cometa, 1993
Oil on Canvas
Dimensions:
Image size: 60 H x 77.9 W in.
Frame size: 62 H x 79.5 W x 2 D in.
Unique
Signed by the artist
Roberto Márquez was born in Mexico City in 1959 where he lived until his family moved to Guadalajara in 1972. While living in Guadalajara from 1976 to 1983, he studied sculpture in the Escuela de Artes Plásticas de la Universidad de Guadalajara, poetry in the Elías Nandino Literary Workshop and architecture in the Jesuit University, Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO). Since 1982 his work has been exhibited in The United States, Mexico, Australia, Europe, South America and South Korea. In 1985 he moved to the United States, residing first in Phoenix, Arizona, where he remained for five years. Since 1990, he lives in the New York area.
