Picuy Soto He is an artist who creates from wonder, exploration and openness. Like a child faced with novelty, but with the experience of someone who already knows the chiaroscuro of the world, poses conversation and creation games.
now as a “Voyeuristic Ninja”the name of his most recent exhibition, takes advantage of the space in the The Pig of Babel Tavern to present what he calls “anti-graffiti”, as well as an intervention on the walls that brings out of the bathrooms those legendary graffiti that talk about gossip, philosophies, sentences and confessions.
In an interview with VANGUARDIA, the artist shared that, unlike his last two exhibitions, where he carried out plastic explorations more inclined to abstraction, here he decided to work his figurative drawing. But instead of taking classes, she decided to go out into the street and practice recording the urban scenes that he considered interesting.
His objective was to make a log of the people he observed, portraits from anonymity, without consent on many occasions. Said secrecy, which she associates with voyeurism, is what she called “anti-graffiti”a form of seize the space without explicitly marking it.
“I realized that he quick character of these drawings, where you capture the significant features before the person moves, gives me a specific aesthetic. I started to publish that as an exhibition ”, he explained.
However, the exercise sparked questions about art and the human experience. “The question of how many times have we been part of a poem, of a drawing or a story. I am not the only voyeuristic ninja observing the environment,” he stated.
The exhibition takes place just after the exhibition of Geroca “Landscapes from here and there”which he gradually replaced in recent weeks with his work and with which he shares that “voyeuristic” vein, since the monero also portrays the city from a low profile, as a irreverent and visual chronicler.
Out of the bathroom
To this first intention is added an extra exploration that arose after being invited to exhibit at the bar, which began as another attempt at appropriation and intervention, graffiti heritage, and ended in the work that now populates the walls of the place.
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“I wanted my expo in the bathrooms, but [Sergio Castillo, socio del bar] He told me that I can’t do that because in the bathrooms there are artists’ clippings and artists’ notes long ago, it would be very daring. So instead of putting my work in the bathrooms, I took out the bathrooms, that’s why I took phrases that I saw there, continue conversations what I saw in the bathrooms,” he explained.
In this way, the pieces made mostly with watercolor are integrated into the site as a singular work, thanks to the paintings, phrases, texts and other messages that Picuy etched on the wall.
“We have the responsibility to change our environment, you can do it in many ways […] but in my case it was just drawing, sitting quietly and drawing. He made me realize that I’m not the only one in town, that we share the problems, we share the spaces. It doesn’t matter what you do, how much it’s worth, it doesn’t matter how much it’s worth if you don’t share it. we are the city”, he concluded.
