Guillermo Trujillo
Galería Habitante, Panama
Independently of the pleasure or the gratification that we have always obtained from viewing Guillermo Trujillo’s works, he has not ceased to amaze us with his capacity to offer us new emotional experiences in each of his incursions in the world of creation. Identification and empathy as forms of appropriation of aesthetic works take on a different dimension when the viewer is faced with the visual experience that his paintings propose.
Like huge Renaissance windows in which the gaze gets lost in the background portraying a landscape or a spring dance full of vitality and tenderness, his panels offer the ubiquity of conciousness floating between dream and reality. As a shaman of ancient indigenous rituals, he detaches us without any need for magic potions or exotic smoke from the environment of everyday materiality to transport us to a newly invented world in which a zoomorphic order of new hybridations emerges free of formalities.
While this chromatic scenery comprised of subtle brushstrokes, full of intense brightness and luminosity, has succeeded in trapping us in a play of visual imprecisions, the careful linear design through which he gives shape to a universe inhabited by esoteric characters is more enveloping. The use of the line a subtle, precise and almost imperceptible trace is capable of constructing a volumetric complex merely through the persis- tence and density of its itinerary on the surface, leaving amid its whimsical voids the luminescent glitter of the background that projects the image. Magic and spell that the quattrocento masters developed as a means to achieve depth and that later acquired the appropriate density for the definition of chiaroscuro, which in Guillermo Trujillo’s case is not only a resource, but also a singular way of making art.
