Gustavo Manzano, Spanish artist and designer, proposes through Dec. 28 an exhibition that gives viewers an opportunity to travel through Latin America, its landscapes and people. Utopic_Gallery hosts this project, which represents a testimony of an “exploration” trip carried out by Manzano over six months. The series includes sixteen works and features a marked intimist character, since the artist traveled alone.
“I visited poor countries and found people that showed an inherited sadness. Many of them had begun working when they were just children, in an effort to survive; nevertheless, they offer you they few things they have, they open their homes and make you feel welcomed” –the artist says. “Color is the main element in their customs. Clothes, facades, worships, generate amazing contrasts that make me reflect on the psychology and symbology of color, on the human being, on life as such” –he notes. Unfortunately, Manzano´s vision can’t go beyond “the conqueror experience”, so he feels Latin America as “the exotic”, “the different.”
The iconographic repertoire of Gustavo Manzano (Madrid, 1967) includes landscapes, portraits and still life. He is not only committed to art, but to his experiences, and that’s the reason why the artist decided to donate 50% of the money collected after having sold the artworks, to the Development Center for people that suffer from a heart condition, a project developed by FUNCIONA Foundation in one of the cities mentioned in some of his works, Grenada in Nicaragua.
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Calle Concepcion Jeronima 22. Madrid
Source: Press release
