César Rangel

Galería Karen Huber presents Señora lapislázuli by César Rangel.

Rangel’s work focuses on the traditional mythical dimension and its form of knowledge: the suprarationality manifested in the plastic image. Since 2016, he has been cultivating albigraphy, a unique pictorial technique he conceived that same year. It consists of creating an image using water, nopal mucilage, and sandpaper friction on a black or colored acrylic plate.

Likewise, the possibilities in terms of quality and formats are vast and represent a new field to explore. On the other hand, its aquatic implication prior to the image draws a parallel with archaic mythopoems about the emergence of the world, such as the Mesoamerican Cipactli and the Hebrew Genesis.

Rangel assumes the plastic image or mythopoem as an apparition that transcends representation. It is operational rather than speculative. It is a way of relating to what exceeds and limits us. It is a resource that does not explain the world; it creates it.

–Galería Karen Huber