In Topâzu, the erotic masterwork of Ryû Murakami, Ishika says that the Nazis knew very well that in a woman´s hair resides her beauty. Ugly for some, essential for others, for this young Guatemalan painter hair is the central core of her first big leagues exposition. Paintings, sculptures and the gallery itself blend to become a unique work of art. Hair is an indicative of many things, she says, when white it marks the end of youth, it becomes a nuisance if it appears in certain undesirable spots of the body, it reminds that a child is becoming a teen.
Estefanía has attended art schools in Barcelona, New York and Guatemala, but her interest in art stems from her early age. For me her sculptures are the stars of the exhibition: She conjoins parts of known animals to create a new one. One with mythological overtones, part fantastic art, part a dream like creature taken from the entrails of the Jungian Collective Unconscious. Over the walls, you will see severed human-like heads, letterings and intense colours. From everywhere you will see hair, sprouting, adorning, infesting. In her paintings they are apparent when viewed from a lateral side. Some of her paintings were originally photographs, but now they are so exquisitely overworked that you will see in them deep volumes, rich colours and subtle suggestions.
Estefanía is not a rookie to art. However this is her debut, a very firm and inspired one into the serious, erudite, art of Guatemala.
A Pelo, esculturas y pinturas de Estefanía Valls Urquijo, is open from Feb. 8 to March 8 at Galería Ana Lucía Gómez, Avenida Las Américas 19-30, Zona 13, Guatemala.
Imagess: klavaza, 2008.
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