Parra Mauricio: The Absence Is to Be in Myself
Galeria Mezanino presents the Mauricio Parra‘s solo show: The absence is to be in myself, curated by Mariana Coggiola and Claudinei Roberto.
As Mariana Coggiola wrote in the curatorial text: “This works talks about body and time. The present conjunct of images describes the premise of this relation. Portraits and self-portraits are instants of passing bodies, specific points of a subject’s appearance inside the natural interval of painting sessions. Medications are here also portraits. The rocks, stones and tools described by the artist in the form of paintings, etchings and watercolours are icons of humanity — of mankind’s action over the matter of the world.
Time is a human convention and transforms the rock as well as the man. Acts over matter as well as the artist, although in perhaps in an opposite direction: while time corrodes and reveals the ancestral skeletons, Mauricio works for the permanence and survival of the object. Bringing this figures — unique amidst all — to life, the artist retains and preserves his subjects in the world.
Sensibility is a human making. Jorge Luis Borges said that beauty if something physical, a state of the body — something that is perceived through its carnal effect. And we feel the pain but we do not feel your absence: we do not miss pain, yet we miss beauty. The body of the artist amalgamated within the portrayed bodies is the experience of humanity — the permanence of myself for what I lodge in another.
In the work of Mauricio Parra the will finds a way, the ways are those of composition and practice. The techniques elected by him are in itself index of the impetus of the matter’s resistance. In his evocations of what passes and dissipates, the artists prolongates the detailing of his path. The time demanded by oil painting is in itself a time of combat: demands from the artist devotion, prolonged silences and long, lonely breaks in his atelier — one body only. It is noticeable that this work parts of a irreverent spirit that pursues something sacred in times of mundanity and impermanence.
The man is not free for having a body. The perspective of collapse of the artist’s body suggests here a path of emancipation. The imagens of Mauricio are his points of contact with himself, the inventory of his stanza, his varnished memory. The conscience of finitude is the will of life. On his back, the artist remembers us that it is possible to leave, that the goal of the way is the path. He reminds us that only one exile conduces us back to the place of the crucial connection with oneself. That in this path awaits for us the beauty and the absence, and that the vigorous absence is a supreme presence”. (Mariana Coggiola)
