Since the beginning of his career as a painter, in the mid-nineties, Lezama developed his work through series or sets of images organized under a guiding concept. The sense of the curatorship of Velo y Alquimia: Early Works by Daniel Lezama is the enigmatic sense that results from the convergence of the contents of the early works -almost all of them from the series El Velo de Maya (1996- 1997), except for Adán y Eva (1995), a piece from the first series painted by the artist: Desnudos sobre fondos decorativos (1995- 1996), and of another that corresponds to a transitional micro-series towards El Velo de Maya, entitled El Desplazamiento (1996)-with the imaginary of the triptych Conductores (2016), from the series Dispositivos (2012- 2016). Lezama's entire pictorial corpus can be characterized as a chain of series that compose something like a great allegorical visual novel, a narrative sequence in which the artist has proposed -from the beginning- a combination of his personal world with a particular deconstruction of multiple imaginaries and references taken from literature, philosophy, painting, religion, pop music and history. The exhibition shows the artist's appropriation of two specific references during two different periods: the Vedic/Buddhist doctrine of the veil of Maya and the iconography of the science-art of alchemy. Regarding the meaning of the images gathered and confronted in the exhibition, it is relevant to highlight a question that has always haunted Daniel Lezama's aesthetic mentality: the earthly experience and the adventure of the human person can be realized as if they were a work of art.
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