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Bestiaries Montreal based artist Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo offers a sublime and blood drenched vision of Aztec spirituality and the recent history of violence in his native country of El Salvador. Ramirez Castillo’s multilayered mixed media drawings on mylar stem from a cultural tradition of storytelling, here the artist assembles his own repertoire of icons and emblematic characters forming the allegorical works of Bestiaries. The work of Ramirez Castillo revives a tremendously rich pre-Columbian mythology where humankind seeks communion with animal spirits. Numerous beasts are found alongside gods, forming a procession of hybrid wildlife where violence symbolizes both a history fraught with resistance to colonial injustice, and contemporary traumas that continue to haunt El Salvadorian society. |
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july 26 2009
