Francisco Larios use postmodern influences are recognized by simplified forms, lines and sacred geometry. Larios' production is not an uncritical quotation or appropriation of the themes that interest him, being a poetic exploration of the state of our relationships with faith, will and destiny.
AVAILABLE ARTWORKS BY FRANCISCO LARIOS
Khloris Series
The title of the series derives from one of the many conversations in which Jorge Luis Borges, lover of walks and strolls through streets, parks and gardens, in those conversations the artist intended to stop, listen carefully and be able to distinguish among the noise and chaos of the city, the voices and songs of the birds, and so, following the voices of the birds, he arrived at the parks and gardens as if the breadcrumbs were left by the birds themselves and assured him that it was so. In these parks and gardens it was possible to find all the buried voices and songs, whether they were seeds or diamonds. With this series, the artist imagines Borges trying to place his own gaze on the blurred image that was represented before him, the distant lights of the city, its announcements and reflections, the silhouettes and their expressive silences, trying to exchange sounds for shapes, birdsongs as lights.
To the question of the Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han: Is it possible in this age of digitalization to look at nature again, to fill it with romanticism? Larios resorts to this image of Borges, insisting on looking, observing and seeing, the Khloris series is a metaphor of the beginning, of the first glance at Eden, it is an attempt to find ourselves again in that expressive silence of light where the first time we exchanged forms From desire.
Mexican Ryōan-ji Series
Ryōan-ji is the Japanese Zen temple in Kyoto, a monastery that gave rise to the idea of the purely abstract Zen garden that inspired this series Francisco Larios’ works are done by hand with hundreds of layers of gold leaf. The artist’s goal is to allow the work to age along with the collector, which is why some works will appear unbalanced in color. Parts of the work will have different tones, burnish spots, or small, soft cracks.
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FRANCISCO LARIOS
REPRESENTED ARTIST
Francisco Larios lives and works in Monterrey, Nuevo León. He studied design and majored in Art History at Universidad La Salle, Laguna. He is a multidisciplinary artist who works with painting, open concept drawing and 3D modeling software. Larios participated in the XII Biennial “Rufino Tamayo” and FEMSA Biennial, Mexico City, Mexico; VII Biennial of Cuenca, Ecuador, and was awarded the Premio de Pintura Adquisición Reseña de la Plástica de Nuevo León. His work is part of public and private collections such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, California; Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas; USA, FEMSA Collection, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO), Monterrey, Mexico; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Museo Carrillo Gil and Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico.