Juan Manuel Roca
Colombian poet. National Poetry Prize of Colombia. Has written about Mario Londoño's work.
2024 · Obra reciente
On the Recent Work
Mario Londoño's recent works, rather than being detached, are well distanced from the surrealist syntax that has accompanied him on his journey – that union of the umbrella and the sewing machine on the Lautremontian dissection table – now create a whole where the matter and color zones, by increasing the dimensions of his formats, become more pictorial. Color and brushstrokes that capture those amphibious territories in his work, appropriate a space where abstraction accompanies the figure in a muted dialogue, in dreams that yoke the seen objects and the visited glances.
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Los Espacios del Sueño
The barren surfaces, the white of paper or wood, are a primordial element in the works of Mario Londoño. They operate for him as dictation for his forms, for compositions that respect air, silence. The burden of silence in his painting, the muted tone with which he tells of an analogical world of the essential, like an anti-baroquism that allows a simple reading even within the complexity of his atmospheres. A sunlit solitude whose oneiric weight captures us — in Londoño's paintings, most of them made with acrylic on wood, static figures, or figures isolated in a plastic monologue, appear summoned for a staging of the absurd, which by the art of his brush cease to be absurd and settle into the everyday fact. In truth, is there anything more everyday than the absurd and its constant metaphorization of the impossible?
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