A show man

By Francisco Forero

Appear before these mirrors, whose frames has been painted by Ariza, makes us ask if we really see ourselfs reflected, or is it the mirror that´s looking upon us.

Ariza has overcome the limits of crafts, turning the functional into estetic and plastic forms.

When we stand in front of this painted frames, they are inviting us to a journey through etnic America, including the Sioux-Navajo´s; Maya-Aztec´s; Chibcha -Inca´s cultures and civilizations, with there ideograms and stone engravings from ancient tribes.

Each painted frame is a rare piece, with there own progresive contents and proposals that invites you to evolution while you remember.

His etnic proposal surpasses frontiers and take part, like every good art, in a universal vision.

The Calabash, also ancient, but now manufactured in lamps, the surface of which the open spaces filtering the light, makes them take us back to the time of El Dorado, not only to Colombia but al over America.

The Sun, fire, the late afternoons of the american world, the jungle, the endless rivers and the unquestionable glow of sacred gold.

This reflection might come over us while we appreciate these works in forms of lamps, which Ariza elaborates with aboriginal materials.

Art is evolution, we find that the process is displacing from criptic forms of the mirrors and lamps towards more cubic forms, expressionism of European art, unite this whit the geometric forms used by amazonic´s tribes, in the Uraba region and you obtain the surprising crafts of wooden inlay.

Fragmets, Crafts Workshop

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