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Páneles o lares
Art
Contemporary
Location
Quetzalli Gallery Oaxaca,
Oaxaca
Year
2010
Artist
Francisco Morales
From everyday life we can generate discourse, take it to the limit
The plastic work of this project is structured from patterns that evoke fabrics and tapestries, as well as buildings and urban layouts. Its sources may be the patterned designs of Scottish woolen cloths (tartans), which serve to differentiate clan members, or oriental patterns (as they appear in carpets) and palm leaf ornaments (palmettes), characteristic of English imperial stamps and fabrics, which are reproduced both in British store windows and in the more common wallpaper used to decorate walls.
However, the work is not only an iterative rereading of designs in the visual plot; the title of the exhibition introduces us to the enhanced sense of these repetitions: Páneles o lares, which names, on principle, a constructive element, the panels, and a domestic one, the lares (homes). On the other hand, the title has a phonic ambiguity that can also be understood as “solar panels”. In fact, the similarity between the patterns and the cell panels that capture solar energy is evident.
In this interplay of correspondences, the grid reappears as a framework or organizational format that can be increasingly extended to other systems of network patterns, from cell systems in biology to cybernetic flows linked by the key www, which visually expresses a weft in an iterative way. Yet the network is only a metaphor that facilitates understanding.
The plastic work of this project is structured from patterns that evoke fabrics and tapestries, as well as buildings and urban layouts. Its sources may be the patterned designs of Scottish woolen cloths (tartans), which serve to differentiate clan members, or oriental patterns (as they appear in carpets) and palm leaf ornaments (palmettes), characteristic of English imperial stamps and fabrics, which are reproduced both in British store windows and in the more common wallpaper used to decorate walls.
His works point to the laying and assembly of wefts and modules where the organic coexists with the linear through graphite, the volume of MDF, and sunlight itself, used as modest stroke instruments that establish the autonomy of the components of the network, never identical, always individualized: the graphite, in the end, which gives language value to the structure and writing of the universe.
