“Mother and Child” is a very classical and powerful motif

in the history of art, especially in painting. Looking at the origins

of this theme, I started to think about my own origins, as

a person. I realized that the most primitive roots of what a human

being became are at the deepest of his own mother’s psyche.

With all this in mind I started to quest the most primitive origins

of the painting in the new world, with a focus in the south

hemisphere, where I born and still live: the Latin America. The

roots of South America pictorial art are impregnated with Baroque

in the spiritual side, and by Natural History in the scientific

side. Looking around the XVII century I also found a very

peculiar stile of painting called “The Cusco School”. These paintings

blended some baroque motifs brought from Europe with

local indigenous culture, creating some curious hybrid visions

on classical religious narratives. One of them, the “Trifacial

Jesus” , are so weird that was forbidden by the official Catholic

Church authorities at that time and classified as demoniacal.

I feel very inspired by these images and history but since religion

is not a theme I have interest to explore directly in my

paintings I reconstructed the concept emptying out all the sacred

content, creating an allegory called “Trifacial Mother”.

The protagonism of the female central figure reveals three different

faces: in the spectator’s right, the real raw primitive and

obscure instinct side; in the left, the artificial persona, or how

the woman act in the social theatre and how society seems her.

Finally at the center: the mother. A unique, almost sobrenatural

being, made of pure love and powerful enough to create life.”