APOLOGY OF THE WANDERING IMAGINATION: Benjamin Bonilla.

The personal world of Benjamin Bonilla (Mexico City, 1977), now we move through his paintings has two essential characteristics: imagination and uprooting. The imagination is a skill undervalued in the twentieth century. An educated in the image culture has meant that individuals have lost the habit of proposing to healthy self-images more intimate sense of the world. Modern art has interpreted the reality of reason and abstract fields, that emotion and imagination. At the break of the nineteenth century, the imagination was the vehicle for conveying emotion in a direct way. It has been more than two centuries trying as Western culture to give balance reason and emotion. Romanticism was the latest attempt to balance the individual's experience and phenomena of the world. By sealing definitely a rational world of civilization, art and took different paths away from the subjective voices. There were attempts in the last century to encourage the imagination take its place again in the creative process. At the same time assimilating new features art, internally convulsed and gave birth to new expressions: Impressionism is a good example. In this way we can understand the craft of Bonilla, who is the slogan of understanding the craft of the artist as a decoding of reality and personal imaginary transmutation. This show is a synthesis of years of cultivating a natural sensitivity and experience of living in other countries. His experience as a foreigner, has led to confrontation with others and with himself. If one perceives the world as a painful scenario is just a reflection of the inner stage is being perceived. Bonilla levees put your imagination to coagulate the dance of motives and appreciate certain topics. His work has literary echoes and other passions or obsessions: the bullfight, rock, literature. Can be sensed in the titles of the pictures, and evocative invitation to enter a watchful eye, which has tried to discover, with a scope, other realities not apparent. The Art of Benjamin is a figurative art, with its own symmetry and proportion. Influenced by the chiaroscuro, create and dream everyday occurrences show a mossy prickly emotional world. The movement in his painting is slow, almost static. His characters include a hint of vertigo to come, are wandering figures have anxiety exists in the world, captured just before an act which undertakes all its certainties. In his exploration of light, the use of contrast is one of the best resources, know how to create emotional atmosphere in different layers. The emotional roots of his paintings is an intimate rootlessness of modern times. Expressions the characters are paradoxical: frustration and fascination with a world worn. The irony and tears seem to reflect the same pain. That's why Bonilla painting has an aura of mystery. To engage in the paradoxical excitement of seeing the world crumble and run laughing at him. In some paintings, some more risky than others, the shock is evident. We can mention among them She said she could enter, Remorse and ripples of migration. It is in those pictures riskier personality ruled by Bonilla. Scenes of everyday life with the veil of dreams and subjective experiences that are enriching the eye the viewer, where you see a corner, there is more than an intersection. In that sense there is some obfuscation, sadness. It is in this show that Bonilla projected lines coming style. We could understand this as the answer shows trying to tell us your own sense of rootlessness. The virtue of his painting is this: to understand the world as a roving motion, but with flowers. Benjamin Bonilla makes a constant advocacy of the imagination.

About the author:

The concern for pictorial creation has always been Benjamin Bonilla in the blood nephew of the legendary Mexican painter Agustín Lazo and Javier Vazquez (aka Jazzamoart), has used his trips abroad and other experiences as a breeding ground for images re-concentrated iconographic vocabulary which refers to the atmospheres of the stories of Boris Pilnyak or Tario Francisco. As the verses by Rainer Maria Rilke, which were necessary for birth years of contemplation and travel to ferment in the minds and thus the birth of the word, the paintings of Benjamin Bonilla was stirred in the darkness of a room insomniac, haunted by memories of cities and distant faces. While the ghosts of Francisco Goitia and Alice Rahon felt his influence. If you like the music of Cranes or Lycia, these are the perfect visual passages to keep them company. Enjoy and come back soon. Very soon.