BLACKSTONE VALLEY VISITOR CENTER
Deeply (May 2 – 31, 2016)
Opening Reception || May 7, (1 to 3pm)
175 Main St, Pawtucket, RI
(401) 724-2200  ||  www.centerbytheblackstone.com

 

“DEEPLY”
Paintings by Nilton Cardenas
Exhibition date: From May 2nd to 31st, 2016
Opening Reception: Sat, May 7th, 1-3pm2016
Artist talk: Sat, May 21st, 1 to 3pm, 2016

PAWTUCKET, RI (April 7th, 2016): Blackstone Valley Visitor Center is pleased to announce that it will host the opening for Nilton Cardenas’ “Deeply”, featuring paintings by Nilton Cardenas. The opening reception will take place on Saturday, May 7th, 2016 from 1 pm to 3:00 pm. The artist will be present at the reception.

The artistic world of Nilton Cárdenas (Perú 1972) stands before us as an evolving process which is constantly achieved. His paintings, drawings and murals offer us a pictorial language polarized by the feelings, memories and nostalgia of an identity: The passion for his country and its original (aesthetic, folkloric, mythological ...) traditions typical of the Inca civilization. That ancestral history is reborn in his paintings under a sort of veiled Andean mysticism which coexists within his present world; his own world; the stage where he lives (the United States). From this symbiosis a constant self-questioning emerges and it is pictorially projected and extended with originality and strength. A work that from his creative crucible radiates intensity, color and life, and it is characterized by a style not subject to limits or fixations, but rather to a form of free expression and aesthetic –realistic, surreal, abstract, contemporary, etc. –plurality. An expression that, in this artist, investigates and risks in search for self-identity, for an original vision, for a feel of the dynamics that produces synergy in the rich universe of form and color: Inspiration and creativity, tradition and present; ´a whole´ that invites us to reflect through the spatial framework of his paintings.
To his already progressive and abundant displayed productions in the various museums and galleries in the series such as "Native Land", "Constant Mystery", "Living in Memory" and "Shapes and Colors", we now add a new one: "Deeply". In it, Cárdenas risks and bets in altars of novelty. He does it so through a different pictorial alchemy. A monochrome language of abstract roots where the economy of color and detail gives way to the suggestion; to the veiled and reciprocal balance between light and shade and their world of insinuation; of silence; of inner being and commitment. With this, Cárdenas achieves a background of temporary-space that unveils and suggests the depth of that moment when, the eyes that observe the painting face a mesh of features, shadows and dark contrasts, typical of the inner feelings of the artist at the precise moment of his creation but also of a world of questions and veiled meanings that begin to open up before us. In other words, we will be exposed to a work of art that draws us to it and makes us deal with the delicate dilemma of choosing among its possible meanings, which, due to its multiple diversity, always will give us the sensation of slipping away from our hands.