This exhibition shows José-María Cano’s latest series of encaustic paintings, all of wich take as their subject the mysterious surface of our planet’s solitary moon, are expresions of longing, spiritualy and awe at the ultimate unknowability of the universe and of the life itself.
Riflemaker Gallery
Luna by Jose María Cano
Thursday, October 15, 2015–Sunday, November 15, 2015
This exhibition shows José-María Cano’s latest series of encaustic paintings, all of wich take as their subject the mysterious surface of our planet’s solitary moon, are expresions of longing, spiritualy and awe at the ultimate unknowability of the universe and of the life itself. Floating in dense atmospheres of infinite darkness, each one also seems not just to reflect the sun’s rays but to glow with its own inner light.(…)
The Far Side, 2015
For Cano, the moon is a subject steeped in spirituality and antiquity. He cities in particular the ecstatic visionary wrinting of the 16th-century Spanish mystic Saint Teresa of Avila, particulary her treatise on the seven grades of prayer (moradas espirituales) and he expresses his own sens of wonder at the timeless spectacle of the moon – always dispalyed to us from the same side – that has captivated people of all persuasions, even the most rational among us. (…).
Marco Livingstone, curator of the exhibition.
José María Cano (1959) is a Spanish compositor and visual artist. In his youth he was a member and principal composer of “Mecano”, one of the more influential Spanish pop-rock bands.
‘Hijo de la luna’ (‘Son of the Moon’) is one of his well known songs in the Spanish-spoken world. After Mecano separated in 1992, he composed an opera, ‘Luna’ (‘Moon’), which was recorded with Plácido Domingo in the leading role, it is obvious that he gets inspired by the Moon since long time ago.
At this exhibition you have the opportunity to see his paintings produced using molten paraffin wax applied to the surface of the canvas with a wax gun which create a textured and bas-relief effect that gets us into a mystery of the universe as the moon it is itself.
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Image: The Far Side, 2015, Paintings, Encaustic on Canvas Size: 52 x 52 cm. (20.5 x 20.5 in.) © José María Cano,