Founded and directed by Mauricio Aguirre, this contemporary art initiative has a presence and a second headquarters in Mexico City.
The gallery is located in ground floor of the Santana Lofts building (Puerto Santa Ana). Surrounded by glass walls, which allow to anyone who walks through the area to enjoy the works inside, the cultural space founded and directed by Mauricio Aguirre from nasal project, celebrates his first year in our city and it does so with the inauguration of the exhibition Oblivion, by the Guayaquil artist Dennys Navas de la Rosa, curated by Ana Rosa Valdez.
Graduated in Higher Technological Institute of Arts of Ecuador (ITAE), with a Painting Mention in 2012, Navas worked as a teacher at that study center until 2017. Obtained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of the Arts in the year 2018 and since then, the 32-year-old artist He has participated in several national and international group exhibitions..
In this sample, the artist places visitors in a post-apocalyptic world or a dystopian reality that produces estrangement due to its elusive nature and uncertain temporality.
Some of the exhibited pieces they are dedicated to reinterpreting the places of experimentation and memory of the natural sciences, such as laboratories, cabinets of curiosities and museums. Others scale to a deeper register involving a material substrate: the labor force, industrial infrastructures and productive activity they take the place that dystopian landscapes and speculative architecture previously had in Navas’s work.
In the larger format paintings appear factory production scenarios where “parts” of landscapes are made with electronic technologies and manual procedures. The new focus of attention shifts to situations. A strange everyday life emerges in them, as if coming out of an alternate universe. They are not grandiose scenes, but impressions of an ordinary character that allow the artist to make conjectures about the “manufacture” of the landscape, their possible meanings and metaphors.
His work is mainly focused on the development of images through drawing and painting, in which it generates different inquiries about the representation and problems of the concept of landscape. its landscapes they are not premonitions of a world to come, nor do they predict the future of humanity; are signs of a now that the artist represents as possible worlds, built under the metaphor of architecture”, explains Valdez.
The exhibition will remain until the end of February and can be visited from Monday to Saturday, from 14:30 to 20:30, with free admission.
About NASAL Project
Project of independent contemporary art, launched by Mauricio Aguirre with a presence in Ecuador and Mexico. Your mission is revitalize and stimulate contemporary artistic practices and foster coherent dialogues, which establish the Ecuadorian and South American art scene in an international context.
Its main objective is to focus attention on support the work of contemporary South American artists and promote cultural issues through its different venues: Ecuador and Mexico and participation in high-level art fairs in Latin America and the United States. (F)
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