About Luis Hinojosa's art ...Two fishes are bicycling on a wire, balancing with open mouths and fish-glassy eyed looks. Behind them appear two figures, and another one dressed in harlequin pants which is flying with bird legs. The flying one has a firm course. Did it find a way out of the painting? The other two are more shadowlike. The larger one seems heavy but has an internal glow and it is lifting the bird bones carefully in order to join the flight. The smaller figure is grey and stands behind without bird legs. Is it about to be erased?
What is the idea? What does this painting mean? “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle”? Who/what is flying and who/what wants to join? What exists outside the painting? Who/what is left within the shadowlands of the painting? |
"In the presence of the art of Luis Antonio Hinojosa Montellano, you lose the security which conceptual art provides.”
