Artist’s Statement by Calos Tello

“Artist’s Statement”.

By: Carlos Tello.

   The central theme of my work is the universal man. Is the human being in precedence of his contradictions and affirmations, in precedence of his progress and destruction.  Is the man that advance and retrocede in precedence of the implacable mechanics of evolution, that is also involution of his historical presence.   

   Firmly I reassert the activity of movement of the energetic mass of its being, exposed to the whole, naked, without a skin that conditions it to superficialities such as the epidemic classification of its color; the muscular mass has stopped belonging to the descriptive anatomy and has become the element of scripture that expresses the indescribable such as emotions, under my own analytical anatomy of the energetic mass conscious of conscientiousness and that projects itself forward, placing itself in precedence of its environment.  In short, is the always-universal man the one that worries me and keeps me occupied in my eagerness to unravel and describe him in essence.

   In my artistic work the style prevails before technique; technology is an alternative of new applications of materials and tools. I consider that the artist should not denied himself to the technical mediums of its time, because if not he would be denying himself to his comtemponierarity and condemning the incursion of an anachronistic state. In the other hand is important to preserve the ancestral techniques that by excellence have become immortal. Their nobleness makes them couple to the new expressions and the present themes.

   I consider that in my work in lesser o greater proportions of importance is the equilibrium of the ancestral techniques with the new alternatives to express the actual themes and of course following the compositive values that are born of the influences of the Renaissance that is to say Italy and the muralists that is to say Mexico.  This two great influences run in the foundations of my own compositive construction.

   The elements form up in the appearance of an improvised lightness and wander  the floating liberty over the arrangement , but in reality they are subject to the most strict rules of my own pictorial grammar.  As Stravinsky said: “The more controlled, limited, art is worked more free becomes”.