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Maria Ayala
Encuentro, Monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl, Mexico, Oil on canvas,

1996

About the Item

Encuentro by Mercedes Ayala is an oil painting most like painted at the Monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl. The Monasteries consists of fourteen monasteries built on or near the Popocatépetl volcano in central Mexico in the sixteenth century by members of the Franciscan, Dominican and Augustinian orders. They were a major factor in the Christianization of a large population over a vast territory and in a short period of time. These 14 monasteries cover over 150 miles (242 kilometers) of land southeast of Mexico City; 11 in the state of Morelos and three in Puebla state. It was impossible to photograph but behind the second monk is a third monk and you can barely see the candle. This is an oil on canvas and painted in her studio in Mexico D.F. Excellent Condition Commentary of her work: Desiderio Hernández Xochitiotzin "Emphasizing the light; the inner light of the being where fragile and subtle figures of angelic appearance inhabit magical beings guardians of good, monks or sages, reminiscences that refuse to disappear. Figures that contrast faintly on a background, almost always dominated by suggestive colors of the night space or of the first morning flashes. Mercedes Ayala Gress, Artist of a high sensitivity as befits her to a great family of Artists… Meche as we fraternally call her, is an artist of a magnificent plastic domain and her work has recreated the greatness of our national landscapes and with great affection that of our Tlaxcalteca land, recreating with emotion in those novo Hispanic monuments, temples, convents, manor houses, loaded with years and history and among its walls eaten away by centuries, the splendid bougainvilleas or jacarandas as well as those fountains with jets of crystalline water under a splendid sun. Ayala is sublimated by these themes, which under the moonlight his brush has captured not only what his retina dictates, but also what that wonderful atmosphere of full poetry and his artist soul inspires him to capture between the blue of the moon and streetlight lights that take us back to those Hispanic New Years that forged our miscegenation. As a poet of color, Ayala is the creator of new emotional messages, she has painted what her spirit symbolically dictates to her, she paints and gives us captured on canvas ... she gives us those halos of emotion or invisible presences in her works, where we only contemplate the shadow of beings that live spiritually and with a presence full of poetic suggestions that speak very loudly to our spirit and our ancestral culture. " Berta Taracena "It is not impossible to show the relationship of this artist with her land. In this way, she recognizes her close kinship with her environment within a dimension that is not only geographical but is also composed of that density, that thickness of feelings, customs, history and nature that constitute the irreplaceable basis of a culture." Eduardo De la Cerda Unlike their predecessors in surrealism, Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington, Paul del Vaux, Salvador Dalí, Marx Ernst, the figures of Mercedes Ayala keep human body proportions, without stylizations and the interface between the objectively earthly and the idyllic heavenly and spiritual , is presented in sacred buildings with an ethereal atmosphere, in abbeys, cloisters, convents, colonial courtyards, sizing your imagination between heavy stone structures, wet and cold, magnetized by the light of the Moon, likewise, giving life to nature emphasizing the presence of the human being. Some of them correspond to recognizable Tlaxcala buildings, which agree with the old geographical place, full of stories, advice, myths and legends, which has been his residence for more than twenty years. Mercedes Ayala has presented her work in more than fifty individual and group exhibitions in Mexico, United States, Paris. Italy, Argentina and Spain, in which it has received rave reviews from specialized critics, as well as an obvious acceptance from the dilettante public. " Sandra Mag The surrealist painting by Mercedes Ayala Gress, whose pseudonym is Magress. '., Full of dreamlike and fanciful matter, enchants and amazes with its unusual associations between metaphysically and alchemically based dreams, manifesting itself in her works. There is no limitation in human desire, most of their beings are transparent or sprout where they arise, ensuring the eternity of being The love of light always philosophically represented the truth, moonlight and sun that charge with energy to resurface like the Phoenix bird ...
  • Creator:
    Maria Ayala (1966, Mexican)
  • Creation Year:
    1996
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 32 in (81.28 cm)Width: 32 in (81.28 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
  • Medium:
    Oil
  • Period:
    1990-1999
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Houston, TX
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU140528465102
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