EDGAR CANO LÓPEZ
En la obra “Fuente” se presentan tres personajes de tres posibles herencias genéticas, hay una persona caucásica, una afrodescendiente y una posiblemente latinoamericana. Estas tres personas tratan de tomar algo que emana de la tierra, puede ser un recurso con los cuales nos beneficiamos. Para esto, el ingenio del hombre siempre es abundante, diseña y construye medios para obtener constantemente un recurso después de haberlo descubierto.
En la escena se apuesta por algo sencillo en apariencia, individuos que toman algo o intentan dominar, parece un fuego, pero no quema, quizá lo sea, un humo, tal vez, propuse una mancha de color que dé forma a lo inimaginable, pero si tomamos atención, esto proviene de una material duro, de concreto bien confeccionado, a mi parecer es una conciencia dura y testaruda.
Sabemos bien que cada acto tiene una consecuencia, esa luminiscencia de color porta algo intrínseco en su esencia, un rostro formado por suerte o capricho. Alguien encajó un cuchillo (triangulo en tonos rojos para acentuar la alarma) en el lugar menos esperado, y el humo o lo etéreo salió a pasear.
Image by Edgar Cano
Text: Alejandro García Lemos
There are so many questions surrounding this image that Edgar Cano presents to us. So, let’s try to dissect the image: What are these three characters doing in the middle of a field? Are they drilling for oil? Do they know each other? What is this iridescent salmon-color sky the result of? Are they immune to fire? or, is this fire and colorful smoke not burning them? Clearly, the people in the image are way to close to be literally social distancing, but this might be a different way of social distancing, after all the title of the piece tell us a whole different story: Fuente (source).
“Source” presents the hidden idea of the irreparable damage and prejudice of humans over using resources. Mother nature gives resources and we -the humans- somehow always manage to use them, abuse them and deplete them. “Source” seems to explore the unlimited contradictions of the so-called development vis-à-vis with the notion of depletion.
The tree persons in the image seem to work together, but at the same time they seem to ignore each other. They also seem immutable and distant in the scene, they seem to be committed to the exploration, if not exploitation to the source and at the same time absent in their minds, perhaps wandering in silence. In the midst of this dream-like moment an unannounced cut or red incision penetrates the painting to create even a more eerie space.
With this impressive image one question resonates in my mind: in this rather overwhelming moment in history are we going to rethink our footprint, are going to stop our abuse our resources, are we going to reconsider out commitment to the “Source” (Fuente)?