César Urrutia

Galería Hilario Galguera Condesa presents Saturday Night by César Urrutia.

Saturday Night is a body of work by César Urrutia that goes beyond the boundaries of the traditional landscape to  enter a territory where nature and imagination intertwine in impossible scenarios. Icebergs, emblems of the polar  cold, float towards tropical landscapes saturated with vibrant colors, creating festive yet unreal atmospheres where the  improbable becomes a visual language full of strength and contradiction.

In these works, the contrast between the glacial and the warm, the dull and the luminous, transcends the aesthetic play  to become a reflection on change, adaptation and the paradox of inhabiting a world where everything is mixed and  redefined. Saturday Night is also a statement against a present saturated with artificial stimuli, a pictorial space where  oil, acrylic and fluorescent aerosol paints merge into bursts of light. Here, art does not decorate: it occupies, inhabits  and transforms the space.

The fluorescent aerosol paints introduce a hidden code, secret layers that only emerge under certain conditions,  inviting the viewer to discover new meanings with each glance. This play of appearances and revelations not only  broadens the interpretative nuances of the work, but also reinforces the invitation to question our perceptions of our  surroundings and to explore the beauty in contradiction. Each work thus becomes a sensorial and almost performative  experience, evoking that fleeting instant before going out on a Saturday night, charged with expectations, anxiety and  desire for absolute surrender to the moment.

The link with the Mexican landscape does not arise from nostalgia, but from a living connection, in permanent  movement.  In this pictorial universe, colour is not ornamental: it is resistance, energy and affirmation, because in  the face of an environment that often invites withdrawal or resignation, the chromatic vitality of Saturday Night is a  radical gesture of permanence and presence – an invitation not to disappear, but to continue to inhabit the world with  intensity and wonder.

–Galería Hilario Galguera