Hesper 001 and Hesper 002. From the Khloris series. Diptych

Hesper 001 and Hesper 002 Diptych, 2023 by Francisco Larios
From The Series Hesper
Acrylic, pastel chalk, airbrush, and automotive lacquer on canvas
Overall size: 100 cm H x 170 cm W
Individual Size: 100 cm H x 85 cm W
Unframed
Unique


KHLORIS The title of the series derives from one of the many conversations in which Jorge Luis Borges, a lover of walks and walks through streets, parks and gardens, in those conversations he claimed to stop, listen carefully and to be able to distinguish, among the noise and chaos of the city, the voices and songs of the birds, and thus, following the voices of the birds, he reached the parks and gardens as if the breadcrumbs had been left to him by the birds themselves. . birds and assured him that it was possible to find in these parks and gardens all the buried voices and songs, whether seeds or diamonds. With this series the artist imagines Borges trying to fix his own gaze on the blurry image that was represented before him, the distant lights of the city, its advertisements and reflections, the silhouettes and its expressive silences, trying to exchange sounds for shapes, songs. of birds like lights. To the question of Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han: Is it possible in this era of digitalization to look at nature again, to fill it with romanticism? Larios resorts to this image of Borges, insisting on looking, observing, seeing, the Khloris series is a metaphor of the beginning, of the first look at Eden, it is an attempt to rediscover ourselves in that expressive silence of light where for the first time we exchange forms of desire.
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Francisco Larios (Guaymas, 1960) lives and works in Monterrey, Nuevo León. He studied design and specialized in Art History at Universidad La Salle, Laguna.

Larios participated at the XII Bienal “Rufino Tamayo” and Bienal FEMSA, Mexico City, Mexico; VII Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador, and was awarded the Prize for Painting Acquisition Reseña de la Plástica de Nuevo León. He is a fellow member of Sistema Nacional de Creadores FONCA.
His work belongs to public and private collections such as the Museum of Contemporary Art de San Diego, California; Museum of Fine Arts de Houston, Texas; USA, Colección FEMSA, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO), Monterrey, Mexico; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Museo Carrillo Gil and Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico.