This Saturday, February 20, at 11:00 a.m., join us for a guided tour in Spanish of the exhibition "Hide and reveal" by the artist Cristina Toledo, by the co-director of Galería ATC, Juan Matos Capote.
Cristina Toledo is interested in transforming the nature of the image through a process of translation: she obtains unknown photographic material and creates pictorial interpretations with great ingenuity on canvas. The artist draws inspiration from a variety of images that she has collected from disparate sources, including digital landscapes, press clippings, and stock photos. Grouped thematically, they allude to recurring motifs in the artist's work, such as public and private memory, the representation of identity, gender, and the control mechanisms imposed on us by visible and invisible forces. For her current exhibition, the artist has created a series of paintings based on the idea of portraiture.
The act of painting is, for Toledo, an antidote against the avalanche of ephemeral and dimensionless images that we find in our daily lives. As she exploits the mechanisms of painting, playing with densities to highlight what is hidden or to add to visual drapery, the artist brings subjects to life and transforms a photographic image into a cryptic and poetic sign. Through a process of re-materialization, a mixture of pigment and binder on a support, Toledo creates intimacy with strangers in the portraits, even as they become more mysterious with their hidden identities.
