by TroubleFunk » Wed Feb 08, 2006 12:23 pm
Whatever else he may say it is, it's certainly what you make it out to be, Dreams End. His assertion that he's never used a model for his art, that it all exists in his head so if you don't like it "you'd better ring my lawyer" was amusing. There is a LOT of information about him on the web but much of it is both repetitive and in Spanish (I don't speak it). These quotes from Mexiconews, though, were interesting:<br><br>"I have always thought that one finds oneself in otherness, in other people, and curiously Mexicans see themselves as people whose identities are constantly in transition," said Lezamo. "It could be that being Mexican implies an artistic experience and the painting is a reflection of that. Juan Gabriel is there singing ´Hasta que te conocí´ (Until I Met You), which is just a song about life as an experience."<br><br>Despite the dark nature of his paintings and the dramatic tone of his themes, Lezama denies that his paintings are a representation of decadence, "Just because the scenes in my paintings are not idealized some might think they are decadent, but no, it really represents a primitive or unconscious state, what happens beneath our conscious minds, not decadent, but hard to stomach because humans desire the cover of sophistication, of entertainment and of consumption, but in the end we are born, we reproduce, we die and that´s it. My paintings always refer to situations of human need."<br><br>Lezamo´s studio is located in the Historic Center of Mexico City, a place where he has found comfort and vitality which, he assures, does not exist anywhere else in the world.<br><br>Between the easels, the tubes of oil paint and the brushes, stacks of images serve as inspiration to Lezama, among them: group shots of women and men from the "400 towns" organization, a group of campesinos that comes to Mexico City every year to protest and state their grievances by standing naked along the city´s major avenues." <br> <p></p><i></i>
