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William Rafael Marquina Buitrago
Ecuador
Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 90.2 W x 59.8 H x 0.1 D in
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The title of this work corresponds verbatim to a quote from the Bible in John 12:32 where it says: <<… and when I am lifted up high above the earth, I will draw everyone to me…>>. This text describes the way Jesus would come to earth again, and that is by drawing the crowds to him. But, paradoxically, AI seems to be taking over that mission today. In this work William explores the paradox of attraction from the convergence of that biblical quote to describe the paradox of an attractive chimera attached to our times: the idea that Artificial Intelligence would represent the salvation of humanity. It is somewhat strange that even though it appears as a popular belief, it is also the new Alter ego of evolutionary improvement of the human being, since this innovation is alarming along with robotic machines. People identify AI as this kind of artificial technological messiah compared to the biblical savior, Jesus Christ. This biblical Savior who has been perpetuated in the Christian tradition as a unique emblem of spiritual salvation. The artist also experiments in his painting with an abstract environment in which symmetrical shapes (by flexography) manage to awaken the sensation of opposing forces and in turn are absorbed into the dark center of the painting, creating the spatial sensation of attraction. Reason and the soul prevail symmetrically opposable in the state of consciousness, since consciousness is always a struggle between reason and the soul, where one and the other coexist in our thoughts. William challenges us with the strange shapes that look like an animal (baboon?) and whose head seems to explode, disintegrating into white drops that are absorbed into the infinite darkness.
Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:90.2 W x 59.8 H x 0.1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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William Marquina was born in Mérida, Venezuela. Attracted by the works of great masters such as Picasso and Leonardo, at the age of 11 he participated in an outdoor Sunday painting workshop. After graduating in visual arts from the Universidad de Los Andes, he studied a master's degree in philosophy, followed by an unfinished doctorate, and was a short-term visual arts professor at the same university. From now on, William will pursue his passion for art by experimenting with different themes, techniques, styles and media. Disappointed by the unstable situation in his country, he emigrated to the city of Quito in 2019 where he currently lives and produces his works in the Oskan-huera painting studio, cloistered during the pandemic of 2020 and 2021, he will insist on his series Perceptions William's production has been experimentally versatile and challenges us with series characterized by the desire to search, study and complement the archaic and contemporary. His series are notable: Brillo, Picasso Copy, Matisse Copy, Da Vinci Copy and Aperceptions. In the latter, he highlights us in painting, the subjective complexity in the world of perceptions. In 2023 he exhibited his individual retrospective "Imbrications in painting" in the city of Quito; the International Painting exhibition at Casal Català Quito, 2021 and "Exhibition of Ecuadorian Painting" at the Mayor's Office of Quito, 2019. Other important individuals were: "Cartographies of the Terrestrial and Transterranean", Merida 2012; "Care. Path and Limit", 2007 and "Essences", 2007. Awarded the First Prize of Arts for University Students, in 2001.
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