MONUMENTO, is the first individual exhibition of the Argentine artist, resident in Rome, Matías Ercole in the exhibition space of Jorge López Galería.
A project designed specifically for the gallery’s space, which brings together works of various formats. Images in ink and wax on large format canvas paper in a scale competition with the architecture of the room itself.
Ercole's work is based on the certainty that drawing is capable of making the invisible visible and, in his latest works, he focuses on the study of a character: light as the axis of his system.
Which he approaches simultaneously from different approaches, technical, physical and poetic. Through it, visions of the world are structured and confronted. According to López himself “in Matías's work there is a discourse totally closed towards abstraction and gesture, a discourse that guides us between darkness and light that take us on journeys that recall Renaissance or Baroque works”
The landscape is the central iconography in which the investigations of it take place. On this occasion, in “Monumento”, the light becomes “strange”. A light that the artist thinks is typical of his geography.
Hallucinated, valuing the out of oneself, the idea of madness and an exoticism from which Latin America has been thought