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William Rafael Marquina Buitrago
Ecuador
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This is a work composed of four metal butterflies assembled on the holder, printed map of the island of Haiti and Dominica, magenta-colored oil, industrial painting and traces of wear on grinding tools aluminium metal. "Mackandal's Progressive metamorphosis" is the synthesis of the 'wonderful reality' theme of the Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier in his novel the Kingdom of this world. A magical world of need to live within the wonders of magic realism in America, or as the author describes it: "The real wonderful is that, that unexpected alteration of reality, a privileged revelation, an unusual lighting, a creative faith of what we need to live in freedom; a search, a task of other dimensions of reality, dream and execution, occurrence and presence." This work describes the moment in which the legendary character of Carpentier, fruitful, is transformed into Butterfly at the very moment of its execution when it was drowned by the flames; inspiring element that marks the content of all revolutionary action throughout all the stories of independence in Latin America, and whose character is its permanent alterity fleeting, isolated and sensitive. Original ready to hang. Frame is not required.
Original Created:2012
Subjects:Political
Materials:Aluminium
Styles:AbstractConceptualPop Art
Mediums:PaintMetalInkPaperFound Objects
Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper
Size:12 W x 6 H x 0.1 D in
Size with Frame:17.25 W x 11.25 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:White
Ready to Hang:Yes
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William Marquina was born in Mérida, Venezuela. Attracted by the works of great masters such as Picasso and Leonardo, at the age of 11 he participated in an outdoor Sunday painting workshop. After graduating in visual arts from the Universidad de Los Andes, he studied a master's degree in philosophy, followed by an unfinished doctorate, and was a short-term visual arts professor at the same university. From now on, William will pursue his passion for art by experimenting with different themes, techniques, styles and media. Disappointed by the unstable situation in his country, he emigrated to the city of Quito in 2019 where he currently lives and produces his works in the Oskan-huera painting studio, cloistered during the pandemic of 2020 and 2021, he will insist on his series Perceptions William's production has been experimentally versatile and challenges us with series characterized by the desire to search, study and complement the archaic and contemporary. His series are notable: Brillo, Picasso Copy, Matisse Copy, Da Vinci Copy and Aperceptions. In the latter, he highlights us in painting, the subjective complexity in the world of perceptions. In 2023 he exhibited his individual retrospective "Imbrications in painting" in the city of Quito; the International Painting exhibition at Casal Català Quito, 2021 and "Exhibition of Ecuadorian Painting" at the Mayor's Office of Quito, 2019. Other important individuals were: "Cartographies of the Terrestrial and Transterranean", Merida 2012; "Care. Path and Limit", 2007 and "Essences", 2007. Awarded the First Prize of Arts for University Students, in 2001.
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