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LUIS OROZCO "DESNUDOS" | 6. August - 16. August |
"… Suddenly a woman disrobes and sits naked in all her glory…"
I once saw a blue woman. One of those women you never forget. Reclining leisurely on her sofa. In her movement as if she didn't fit in the picture frame. She was a painted woman, one of Luis' women. Defeated yet defiant, asleep yet warm. A woman out of reach, a woman trapped in her erotic love.
Years later I saw a black woman, her nipples pink as a May rose in bloom and a faint deep blue brush stroke above her eyes; Luis’ woman. Full of her earthy love, feminine, naked and dignified. She was not alone. There were others with her; attractive, tender, aristocratic, mature, erotic and transparent as poems of Embirikos, Kavvadias, Lorca or Neruda.
Luis painted eleven women this year for his exhibition at Scala Shop Gallery and, in this way, with the flowers "taking their scent from their sweet body", he presented them to me at his studio. He was happy; his brush had worked the oils with gusto. He "dressed their eyes with the colour of the moon", their bodies "had imprisoned the agility of the wind", on the walls that filled the canvas it was as if "the dawn had strewn its rose petals".
Genevieve was right: "…He paints as he breathes, he turns his every experience into painting. He paints like he plays music, or sings sometimes, out of a deep necessity, demand, happiness because painting is all that, even if, on the other hand, it is quite the opposite of facility, even asceticism […]".
Genevieve Couteau
What my eyes saw from the beginning of the '60s always surprised me –his multicoloured Mykonian universe. Fishermen and greengrocers, alleys and churches, dead nature and musical instruments, lively fish and vegetables grouped together with objects that traveled from the other side of the world, from Mexico. Luis, a friend of Florakis and Pantos, is perhaps the last of the generation that filled the end of Matoyianni street with colour. He is in the company of Theodore Angelopoulos, Manolis Petalas, Margarita Bakopoulou, Stavros Xarhakos. From the time he arrived on the island, he installed himself in the hospitable hive of Viennoula’s and works tirelessly, having created a significant body of work and a philosophy of life which is full of beauty and calm.
Soon, Luis Orozco will mark 50 years in Mykonos. He is a celebrated personality in the art world and it is a big honor for us to exhibit a part of his work at Scala Shop Gallery.
ARTWORK
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