Museo de Arte de El Salvador (MARTE)

MARTE Contemporáneo

Presents:

"Sacral" 

by Nadie (nobody)

September 7th to October 14th, 2012

With cuts of football players silhouettes taken from posters and photographs of the newspapers sports sections, Nadie creates a mural of collages in which the accumulation of these figures further evoked a fresh Baroque religious art. From this idea, similarities are found (very obvious and commented) between religion and football fans: both massive, multitudinal passions aroused. Thousands of people gather in one location and create rivalries between opposites. In the iconography field, both figures are suspended in the air (either by divine grace or to prevent a goal); faces with intense expressions; limbs in angular poses, folded clothing in primary colors; a possibility for erotic readings by interactions are presented, among others. In this comparative exercise, it is curious to observe how the players are attributed with extra-human abilities, almost with super powers a little more credible than those attributed to the saints who are depicted in Catholic art.

Nadie is Javier Ramirez, El Salvador, 1985. Writer and visual artist. He has published the poetry collection "Even voided spaces have air," winner of the literary contest Tapado Gallo from the Cultural Center of Spain in El Salvador (CCESV), 2009. He won the third place in the XI Young Artists for the Still Life work, created in conjunction with Ephraim Caravantes; he participated in Managua and San Salvador at the 2010 Poets per km² - Poetic festival organized by Arrebato Libros of Spain and had a solo exhibition of Nadie photography, part of the festival Esfoto 10, at La Rayuela coffee shop, 2010. In 2011, he obtained the Art Residency for Latin American and Haiti Creators at the Mexico's National Fund for Culture and Arts in the field of Words. In 2012 he was part of the sample This is not a de-generation: young art in El Salvador? restored by Ernesto Calvo and held at La Casa Tomada. 

The MARTE Contemporary program is sponsored by Mario Cáder-Frech and the MARTE Contemporary Committee.

The Burial of Count Orgaz

Museo de Arte de El Salvador (MARTE)
MARTE Contemporáneo
Presents:

"The Burial of Count Orgaz" 

by Mario Santizo

September 7th to October 14th, 2012

Mario Santizo (fragment).

Stage is one of our best qualities. We naturally perpetuate what the Baroque artists did: To decorate graves and churches regardless of their creed. We staged banquets, dresses, hairstyles and cakes 15 years as ritualistic activity. The rhetoric of politics and poets of the national landscape ever reach tones and decorations similar to those of cold meat dishes. If we envision a modern or a postmodern project, it is impossible to imagine it without the religious frenzy effect, the crucified bodies, the apocalyptic drama and the counting our up and down passions. They say that where there is nothing, nothing can be wasted.

All the description above is the best framework for positioning a work like Mario Santizo’s. This horrifies, crucifixes removed or moral discomfort all colors. It alters goog people’s consciences, which is usually a step of their fascination. Or because, coming into face to their spectacular digital montages, is like watching a Japanese version of the Passion of Christ without any subtitles.

Rosina Cazali

Mario Santizo, Guatemala, 1984. Bachelor in arts with a major in painting. In 2004 he participated in the first group exhibition Meat, Soup and Cookies. One year later he made Baroque Father and Phlegmatic Man Band in the Guatemalan American Institute (IGA) and participated in two acts of the play "Part" in the The Penthouse gallery. In 2006 participated in the contest organized by Helvetas, where he obtained an honorable mention the following year he held his first solo exhibition at the Gallery Boxes attic and in 2008 obtained the Recording Artist Mention under 25 years old at the Second National Exhibition of Printmaking and third place in the Juannio Competition. In 2010 he participated in the X Biennial of Cuenca in Ecuador, the Bienal of Arte Paiz and Photo 30. He is the founder of the collective Mala Vibra Social Club.