The Drawers - Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo Commentary written by Zachari Logan
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a sensuous and menacing propinquity, the work of Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo at
once arrests, pulling the viewer into a nightmarish story filled with
phantasmagoric monsters and iconic images of popular, political and
religious figures, elicited through a sequence of fragmented memories. In a
way cinematic, reminiscent of Terry Gilliam's film Brazil, these drawings
also invoke references to both Francisco Goya's Disasters of War etchings
and his Black Paintings along with other historic political works, such as,
Theodore Géricault's Raft of the Medusa. Like the works of these great
artists, Castillo draws on themes of psychosis, suffering and mortality in
states of flux, illustrated on paper as personal and collective recountings. Copyright © 2006, Zachari Logan |