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The Centro Párraga hosts today (8:30 p.m.), the inauguration of 'The flight of the fly', an exhibition by the Murcian visual artist Arturo Méndez, who through a series of paintings poses different metaphors about the human condition.
Méndez addresses a reflection on the Baroque idea of ​​'Vanitas', revising it in a contemporary way and adapting it to the problems of today's society.
Through the figure of the fly, the central animal in the discourse of the history of art, and associated with negative connotations in Western society, Arturo Méndez questions the conception of the real, reflecting the vulnerability and fragility of the human body.
For this, Méndez deals with the human figure, which acquires a disturbing and sinister vision, from fragmentation, dehumanizing it through this enigmatic insect popularly associated with dirt, decay, rot and death.
Formally, the project is structured by means of paintings of different sizes.
As if it were a plague, the works are arranged according to the accumulation, repetition and excess, thus forming a pictorial installation with which Méndez seeks that the viewer feels questioned before the "disturbing strangeness" of what is observing
Arturo Méndez is a visual artist of Librilla.
His projects focus on highlighting a special interest in concepts about identity as a symbol of a fragile and vulnerable society.
In his works he tries to reflect an unfolding or multiplicity of realities with which to define contemporary society.
With a treatment of the image and singular procedures, Méndez alludes to these concepts through aesthetic categories of the sinister and the abject, thus generating projects that wander between the real, the fictitious and the oneiric.
Source: CARM
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