Unity of Opposites
Blasto and Ernesto Walker
April 19, 2019 - May 18, 2019
Big Medium
Unityof Opposites, featuring artists Blasto and Ernesto Walker, explores nature and how humans decide to interact with it. Inspired by alchemy, technology, and numbers, Blasto focuses on earth, the visible and tangible; Walker, the invisible, immaterial, and divine. By taking opposite ends of the spectrum, they create pieces that connect only by the tension within their subjects.
Blasto is interested in exploring universal concepts and landing them on symbols that can connect with people through his work on the street. He seeks to recognize, discover, and be a participant in architectural concepts of the city and any environment to establish an open dialogue with the thousands of commuters, or with the few who will discover interventions hidden from most. His work has been shown mostly in Mexico and South America. Publications of his work include Street Sketchbook Journeys / Thames & Hudson, UK & Nuevo Mundo Latin American Street Art / Gestalten, Germany.
Ernesto Walker explores chance and abstraction as a way to encode and visually translate the reality around us, looking for links between what is accidental and what becomes meaningful. His work has been shown worldwide. He is 1st place winner of the Saatchi Gallery Drawing Showdown 2011, obtained FONCA Fellowships from the Mexican National Arts Fund (2016 & 2018), among many other accolades. Since January 2011, he is a professor of the School of Art, Architecture, and Design of the Tec de Monterrey College.
Programming
For Fusebox Festival, this two-person exhibition, both based in Monterrey, Mexico, investigates the conflicts with technological developments that function as an interface between reality and our search for meaning. They take a close look at the systemic components underlying constant reorganizations and the resulting factors of unilateral intervention.