Join us for the opening reception of "Uncanny Valley" featuring new artworks by artist Eduardo Castillo-Salgado at #Hashtag Gallery.
Uncanny Valley
The body, the search for carnations exploring different oil palettes in the deep portrait of characters, women who travel the Uncanny Valley between an idealized, pop and hegemonic beauty, and certain disconcerting, artificial, kitsch features. Their Reels and photos edited in 3D and AI (whose technique is surprisingly similar to Deleuze’s definition of the Pictorial Act) detonate paintings that pursue expressive and loose brushstrokes, but calculated to precisely evoke each detail in a painterly way without any photorealistic intention.
The baroque palette, calcium carbonate, glazes and underpainting with impasto whites, typical of Titian and Velázquez, are combined with the synthetic palette of cadmium and chrome colors, whose saturation I associate with the contemporary world. In the city, the skins are illuminated with baroque drama by fleeting colored lights, sometimes cut out from the dark background by another neon glow. Moments that can only be captured by the mobile.
With these characters, military references and certain pop elements as recognizable Iconology of our days, I create my vision of the world, not with the perfection conditioned by the photographic impression of reality, but with the subtle indefinition of its details, learned from the painting of the Old Masters and rediscovered in generative images, arriving at a naturalism increasingly subordinated to the materiality of the Pictorial Act.
Durango 272 #4, Roma Norte, CDMX
*This is our last art show before we move to Benjamin Franklin 151-A, Condesa.
