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26/09/2012
FELIPE CARDEÑA: SAINTS, ELEPHANTS, BUDDHAS, MADONNAS, HINDU PARADISES
It is impossible, at least for a moment, not to linger over the "end of the world" prediction, the prophecy that has been spreading across the media for many years now.
Felipe Cardeña is an enigmatic and eclectic artist who reflects on the topic of the 2012 Apocalypse with his personal exhibition "POETRY OF THE END OF THE WORLD", on display at MyOwnGallery and curated by Philippe Daverio, freely inspired to Antonio Delfini's twentieth-century poems collection.
His paintings are a combination of colorful flowers collages and flamboyant visions of a paradisiac universe, matching with subjects taken from sacred iconography of the most diverse religious spheres (Hinduists, Catholics, Buddhists and so on). This is the personal answer of the artist in front of the state of uncertainty that surrounds the mankind.
In this way, the East and the West are meeting each other, through an obsessive combination of the images, like a sort of "mantra", able to uplift men from their oppressive sense of caducity.
The secret identity is revealed in the exclusive video interview with Felipe Cardeña:
Felipe Cardeña, Poetry of the end of the world, MyOwnGallery, 01 – 18 October.
Opening 01 October h. 19.