Oscar de Las Flores

 

Born 1975 in Santa Ana, El Savador

 

Latin America is the embodiment of surrealism . A mirage of juxtapositions, contradictions, inequities and injustices make it spin out of control and reason. After a prolonged absence, I decided to come back to Mexico, and to live in Oaxaca.

 

This is where my own artistic condition originates. Latin America generates these convulsive narratives, that disintegrate and regenerate on the page and the mind, plaguing it all with desire and loathing, with the overabundance of madness and the essence of awe, love and eroticism, humour and passion.

 

Living in a constant creative decadence, where corruption and crime are but intrinsic aspects of the norm, beauty and desire, misery and wealth are all interrelated, profound, exuberant and decrepit. Much affected by this whirlwind, poetic and yet painful; my experience, has pushed me to convey this reality in a way that is irreverent and convoluted. This is my world, and this is my way of dealing with it, in order to survive it.

 

 



Oscar de Las Flores, The Last of the Classicists, 2010, 15 x 20 inches, Ink on Paper


Oscar de Las Flores, The Last of the Classicists (Detail), 2010, 15 x 20 inches, Ink on Paper


Oscar de Las Flores, Romantic Imagination of the 21st Century (Detail), 2010, 15 x 10 inches, Ink on Paper


Oscar de Las Flores, Romantic Imagination of the 21st Century (Detail), 2010, 15 x 20 inches, Ink on Paper