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& # 39; Ecos del Dorado & # 39; is the new pictorial production of Enriquestuardo Álvarez.

A city that has almost bled gold in the midst of the exotic New World is the legend that has made hundreds of anxious Europeans mad with the promise of wealth.

Now, the legend of El Dorado is the starting point of the search for the Latin American identity that Enriquestuardo Álvarez expresses in his new exhibition. This is "Echoes of the Golden", a sample that is housed in the Sala Palacios Gallery, Nayón.

"There are big gaps, our identity is not complete … It would also be the search for El Dorado" says the artist of Salcedo, who took as reference several Pre-Columbian objects exhibited in the Central Bank Museum and the Alabado Museum. "I was very disturbed by these pre-Columbian images," he adds, "because I saw them with a great deal of mystery."

Álvarez believes that the memory of what these icons represented for our ancestors has been lost, although there is a genetic memory preserved in the collective unconscious. To unravel these objects, he "badumed the position of the conquerors in search of treasure".

Rebuilding the Past
From this exploration comes the idea of ​​presenting pre-Columbian pieces painted in close-up, but broken, incomplete and corrupted by the pbadage of time, as the memory of Latino identity -américaine.

Known for the expressiveness of the faces that he painted in works such as "Mujeres Libertarias", for the artist it was a challenge to focus the sample on inanimate objects. "I wanted to see if I could transmit this life, this vibration that reached the face",

EL DATO
The exhibition will be open until the end of this month at the Palacios Gallery ] The broken icons are complemented by melancholic faces and golden splashes.

"They can be elements of identity but in the contemporaneity they have been reduced to ornaments," he says. For the painter, these objects are considered a status symbol, but few people feel part of what they represent. The aim of this exhibition is to find this genetic memory of the spectator's unconscious and to make them reflect on these objectives as symbols of its history. "This shows us the living situations of a culture that we have relegated ourselves," adds Sara Palacios, owner of the gallery

The Origin
° "Ecos del Dorado" was born in extension of the pictorial exhibition El Dorado, inaugurated in Chicago in 2016, although Alvarez explains that he has been working with the themes and elements of the exhibition since 2010. Currently, in charge from the Embbady of Ecuador in the United States, "El Dorado" is still touring in this country. & # 39; Ecos del Dorado & # 39; was a way to give back to Ecuador the inspiration for the first exhibition. "I felt that there was a debt to the country," says the Ecuadorian painter

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