Oscar Soto Lozano

Drexel Galería presents Pure, an exhibition of recent paintings by Oscar Soto Lozano.

Oscar Soto Lozano's pictorial work conceives his concern for space and field of vision, highlighting color and its orderly manifestation on the horizon, as a contrast to the proliferation of entropic visual noise that emanates from every city in crisis. His experimentation is based on pigment and its optical quality of reflecting light at a specific degree of the color spectrum, elevating its meaning beyond the merely visual, toward an appreciation of the metaphysical mystery of the very existence of light.

PURE is an unusual exercise in the artist's work, in which the meticulous and refined work of masking each spatial boundary to define the chromatic narratives that simultaneously divide and unify the composition is now replaced by an interior exploration of his body, exerting force and freedom over the brush, leaving notable absences of color between the continuous strokes, blurring boundaries, creating patterns more akin to heart rhythms, breathing cycles, organic phenomena, fractals, life in the abstract. This interpretation of rhythms and pigmented flows is complemented by a panel where the paint, in its most saturated state, becomes a solid structural origin and balance or contrast for the graphics obtained from the light movement, which seems to emanate in search of new forms of expression, other orders.

The collection of works that make up PURE is the result of a deep understanding of color, the material origin and provenance of pigments, a process akin to alchemy, but especially of its effects on human perception, which enables it to transform moods, accompany them, and enhance or attenuate them, a phenomenon that can be so spontaneous and natural that it goes unnoticed, yet feeling it is a latent sign of being alive.

This collection of paintings by Oscar Soto Lozano appears brilliantly at a crucial moment in our history, when the exhaustion of the outdated representativeness of forms overwhelms us by violently distancing us, as is now commonplace, from that which was so elemental that it was capable of moving us when we felt it and learned to recognize it almost immediately after birth, something that is so pure and contained in all forms and all things: color.

— Sara López