November/Dec 2019
Special Event
Salt & Pepper, Abstractions & Landscapes. Art Show and inaugural celebration, just prior to Art Basel Miami 2019.
"The defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time." This exhibition reflects the creative process of both artists and their artistic creations, expressed on paper - small format. The works hang on the walls, just as the Art world is hanging amidst this existential limbo. Landscapes & Abstractions, by Natasha Perdomo and Rafael Lopez-Ramos at COWRY Art Studio, North Miami.
This short suite of works derives from a series Lopez-Ramos created in Havana, for the exhibition Walking Beside you in the Buddhist Temple (Vancouver, 1997). Some of the 7 artworks been shown now, were part of those pieces or are made with documents, objects or tokens he brought with him in order to finish these works, or make new ones. He aimed to record human experience focusing on its social, biological, national, and individual spheres, represented by some of its own fragments and vestiges, mixing yellowish historical tokens and the most banal, current, local objects, along signs and symbols of ancient mystical traditions, maps, plans, sketches, and handwritten notes by himself or other people, following a sort of “collective bricolage” creative method.
