Sergio Isauro
LUMA Centro, CDMX
This is a question that has haunted the human mind since the dawn of time. What is the true nature of
the mind? How can we reveal what we cannot see or feel, but which we nevertheless sense? How to
articulate an intuition? How to give it substance? Why we feel vulnerable to the unknown? Preview of an
overly sensitive reality or desperate gestures of a mind blinded by it’s limits? Distinguishing the
presentiment from the illusion is not easy.
We readily believe that the function of art is to represent the visible, since it is from this that it draws its
language. Perhaps, on the contrary, its essential function is to represent the invisible, this invisible one
of which, from the very beginning, man has had anguish, perceiving forces that surpassed him and of
which he was the toy; he has first located them in a tangible presence: a stone, a tree, a seed, then he
has embodied them in superhuman figures: the Gods, but made at his appearance, conceivable,
therefore reassuring. It is only belatedly and rarely that he has risen to sense what escapes his means of
perception and imagination: the unknown, the unknowable. It took the gap of the mystical impulse.
The resulting questions have long been the prerogative of philosophers and spiritual people: when
physics struggles to fully satisfy human questionings, metaphysics and spiritual traditions naturally take
up the baton. There are then two ways of giving back to the perceptible these realities that escape it:
the rite (the liturgical gesture shapes the supernatural power) and art (which gives form to a sensitive
and suprasensible vision of the world), both material incarnations of supra-material intuitions.
From this perspective, Sergio Isauro's work doesn't focus on simple rational and physical knowledge of
the world, as he seeks to have a higher degree of consciousness. Starting from his own relationship with
the subconscious, meditation, ritual, nature, the spiritual and the evolution of the being.
Sergio Isauro's first solo show replicates his most personal processes and extends this inner search
through meditated application in paint, canvas and drawing, and resorting to the most elemental visual
purity. “Creación y Energía" makes visible the true nature of the mind. The works come alive, come out
of their immobility for anyone who wants to feel it, awaken from their formal rigidity. In our minds they
set themselves in motion, sometimes even let themselves be inhabited. Spirits are running on the walls,
without bodies, free of any physical envelope, they seek a receptacle that would heal their mad
wanderings. Then the works live with another presence and we, amazed spectators of such an
encounter, are confronted with their spiritual power, invisible essential often forgotten.
Félix Feria
