Mario Morales
Bio
(March 1990, Santiago – Chile), Morales' artistic theme is based on the concept of geometric abstraction expressed in works that argue encrypted concepts. To do this, he replicates mathematical behavior and distinguished angles, manifesting and hinting at different symbols and compositions that allude to a material meaning through a color and space-based ritual. Since 2015, he has interacted with a vast spectrum of ideas, inclined to propose movement in his compositions, suggesting complex optical and kinetic constructions, often interrupted by an abrupt jump into concrete and paralyzed geometric impulses, all through the systematic unfolding of perception in his canvas paintings, entangling the observer in the dilemma of materiality.
Statement
Mario Morales uses geometry, kinetic art, and scientific knowledge as resources, and his visual discourse is built upon these foundations. He assumes abstract content that, without absolutizing the reference vocabulary, manages an aesthetic experience linked to the fields of mathematics and physics. With an obsessive and handcrafted approach, his work updates its place within the fields of kinetic or optical art, but it does so from the subjective distances/heights that the viewer may adopt. His sharpness in observing and translating the world into vibrant lines and a perfectionist crossing that tends toward simulation and illusion is, to say the least, enviable. "What this has meant, concretely, according to the critic Justo Pastor Mellado, is being the bearer of a resemanticization of geometric abstraction, toward a type of hybrid figuration that stages its own mechanisms of restriction."
