CAC MALAGA HOSTS MARIO AYALA'S FIRST SOLO EXHIBITION IN A MUSEUM
The CAC Malaga hosts Milagro, the first solo exhibition in a museum of Mario Ayala (Los Angeles, USA, 1991), son of a Mexican-American mother and Cuban immigrant father, whose production reflects his personal experiences and artistic concerns of the world of garages, truck drivers and mechanics of Fontana.
His work gathers and assimilates his academic experience in the art of vehicle painting, studies that he developed in Los Angeles Trade Tech and that he never left aside when continuing with the investigation of the possibilities of industrial painting. Thus, Milagro revolves around the lowrider aesthetics of the West Coast beyond the traditional muralism, landing his proposal on paintings made in recent years, which combine this urban art with industrial application techniques. Part of his iconography also comes from there, an expression in which the identity elements of Chicano urban cultures and the development of the pop iconography of those communities acquire an enormously relevant role.
This relationship also reflects those autobiographical memories of his environment and that have turned the world of the automobile and its interpretation of urban culture into his figurative identity. Therefore, his paintings portray parts of automobiles in a realistic way with paintings more typical of development spaces, such as parking lots or garages, combining popular languages in a proposal of rich visual universe.
Mario Ayala: Milagro can be seen until August 25 at the CAC Málaga, calle Alemania, s/n, Málaga, Spain.
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