by Margaret Failoni

After years of exquisitely detailed paintings of landscapes, people and general genre paintings, Santiago Corral presents us with a fascinating group of surreal works highlighted by his extraordinary use of color and light. Psychological spaces in thought provoking and emotionally provocative work blends imagination and reality. While highlighting the use of color, light and shadows, the work focuses on hybrid spaces where boundaries between the real and the unreal blur, creating an atmosphere that is both unsettling and contemplative. Through spacial tensions in these compositions, the dynamic interplay of light and shadows and the ambiguity between interior and exterior spaces, the work elicits emotional responses from the viewer. It does not go unnoticed that there is great dexterity in the detailed objects ever present in these very bourgeois interiors or the subtle juxtaposition in their destruction. In these new works the artist delves into a surreal world, where space ceases to be defined and instead, transforms into a beautiful and ambiguous, timeless narrative platform open to the viewer.

Santiago Corral lives and works in San Miguel de Allende with frequent trips to Mexico City, Valle de Bravo and Europe. His work can be found in private and public collections in Europe, Israel and the United States as well as Mexico. Catalogs of his work can be consulted and acquired in the Intersección Gallery.

The wonderful world of Pop Art is alive and well in México as seen from the lively world of Rodrigo Reynoso. His paintings present the viewer with the effervescent world of México City with it's fast tempo and jois de vivre. The city's residents are forever on the move with a young, hip and vibrant population. The dizzying cocktail of tacos, mariachis and mezcal easily combines with Computers, ipads and electric cars. The concerts halls are packed with Luis Miguel one night and Madonna the next. All this and more is what we fathom from Reynosa's art; fast paced, colorful, beautifully executed and a joy to behold. A few of his pet animals done in multi colored resins accompany the show.

Rodrigo Reynosa lives and works in Mexico City where he was born. His art can be found in local museums and collected in The United States and Mexico.

It's been more than fifteen years since we started our love affair with Timoteo, affectionately called Timo. This delightful, charming and philosophically sound personality has touched most of man's follies, the triumphs and weaknesses, the vices (few) and the virtues (many) of the little man in all of us, and has manage to come through it all unscathed. He has often touched on territories most wise men would avoid and we love him all the more for it. I have witnessed strange scenes in museum exhibitions; adults stand in pensive awe while children embrace the little man, not wanting to leave (a scene witnessed during the Toluca Art Museum exhibition opening).

This exhibition presents us with a series of small bronzes, what would appear to be foot notes of large sculptures, all exact in their exquisite detail. They present us with an extraordinary collection of De la Sierra's oeuvre.

Rodrigo De la Sierra lives and works in Mexico City. His Timos have been exhibited in Museums and art galleries Italy, France, The United States, Colombia and of course, throughout Mexico. He is in several public collections and many private collections throughout. Detailed catalogs are available at the Intersección Gallery.

To realize that Samuel Pérez Lugo was born in Celaya (an agricultural center in the State of Guanajuato, the bread basket heart of the Bajío in central México) helps explain his choice of subject matter in his paintings. The lush fields of corn, wheat, alfalfa and other vegetables that cover the high plains of this region have captivated the artists imagination as the fields paint a continuously diverse color pallet with the ever changing seasons. Like the great Velásquez whose inspiration was the Valley of México, Pérez Lugo is mesmerized by the agricultural landscape of the Bajío.

Samuel Pérez Lugo attended the art program at the Institute Allende in nearby San Miguel de Allende and transiting back and forth every day he could not help but be enchanted by the wonders of nature which moved him to create intrinsic images and immersive environments using the line as a gesture to deconstruct the physical and conceptual boundaries of land and sky. Delicately repeated motifs such as corn, wheat and grass fields comprise a rich vocabulary of symbols and lines that construct a lyrical landscape.

Some of the wide landscape format heightens the drama and emotional intensity of the scenes exemplifying the artists fascination with the color schemes of the different fields.

After completing his studies in the Art School, Perez Lugo remained in San Miguel where he now lives and works.

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415-120-0944, interseccionartsma@gmail.com
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