Gibrán Turón

As part of the cycle 'El dilema de unir los puntos' Proyectos Monclova inaugurates the exhibition Éxitos humildes by the multidisciplinary visual artist Gibrán Turón.

The exhibition Éxitos humildes by Gibrán Turón is part of “The Dilemma of Connecting the Dots”, an exhibition program curated by the artist Néstor Jiménez that takes as a starting point the idea of a non-linear narrative, both of art and cultural phenomena. and social.

For his exhibition, Gibrán Turón presents pieces that are based on a deep reflection on the pictorial processes in the public space, mainly those found in the elements of visual graphics that are part of daily life on the street: signs painted on the facades of commercial premises and advertisements made on cardboard pasted on the walls.

Turón has a great interest in visual media of production and printing, such as screen printing, risography, digital and editorial illustration, but he also focuses his work on media such as drawing, painting and muralism. In this way, his pieces emerge from images, texts and objects that he observes in the streets. Turón has participated in the creation of murals and interventions in public spaces in cities such as Tepic, Monterrey and Mexico City, among others. From this approach, the artist has developed a particular interest not only in large-format painting on walls, but also a search for the transportation of fragments of the painted wall, that is, removing a mural from its context to relocate it in a new space. In the exhibition Humble Successes you can see works such as “Different Dawn” (2024), a piece in which he uses the technique called “strappo”, which has been used in the conservation and restoration of pictorial works on walls. In this way, Turón transfers one of his murals into fragments, to become a free composition of interchangeable large-format paintings within the gallery.

Another part of the exhibition is made up of paintings made with acrylic, aerosol and graphite on peyon. This selection of materials is not random, since some of them are part of the work carried out on murals. On the other hand, Turón chooses the peyón as the support for his paintings because it is such an irregular surface that it resembles that of the wall. The artist's work is also identified by the use of fluorescent colors, which may well refer to the inks used for certain types of printing, such as risograph, but also allude to colors found on cardboard in commercial establishment advertisements.

Gibrán Turón (Villahermosa, Tabasco, 1988) graduated from the Technological Institute of Higher Studies of the West (ITESO) with a degree in Integral Design. Gibrán Turón's work is developed from this polysemantic ludic process, an anthropology of what is close that makes the artist an enunciator of the event, hermeneutic of the arteries of the cities. In any of his proposals, Turón is an aesthetic surveyor, dedicated to metaphorically measuring the urban landscape; ethnologist of allegories; sidewalk botanist: flâneur; alchemical reader who seeks to discover that significant universe that apparently does not occur at first sight but with the contemplation of laziness and selfless investigations of it. His distinctive expressiveness arises from the sensitivity he possesses to apprehend otherness: the language of the city, of cities, because they are many and different. His creations investigate the decontextualized everyday life, otherness, the absurd, the error, the border, the margins between the normal and the strange, the street: a free source of references, stories and characters that materialize in the reconstruction through thought, the memory, imagination and dream space of the artist. Since 2013 he lives in Mexico City, where he develops professionally. He directs the self-managed illustration festival Dolor Local, created in 2015 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, a platform for emerging national art that has been presented in cities such as Cancún, Mexico City, Oaxaca, Puerto Vallarta, Xalapa and Brooklyn.

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