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12/8/2003

Luis Gonzalez Palma

Focus Gallery, London

“The Critical Gaze”

(private view August 13th)

Focus Gallery is thrilled to present LUIS GONZÁLEZ PALMA’s exhibition “The Critical Gaze”. An exclusive opportunity to view this unashamedly beautiful photography for the first time in the UK, and in Europe.

Guatemalan Artist Luis González Palma creates photographs that are marked by a rich texture of transcendent symbols and an open-armed embrace of beauty. Crowns, roses, and wings appear again and again, yet his world is one haunted by grief. He has said, “I live in a country where there is mysticism and violence at the same time – where you are enjoying nature and the helicopters are flying overhead to bomb some region; where you know that as you are working, someone is being killed or someone is being baptized.”

However, González Palma is not a typical documentary photographer. His landscape is not that of Guatemala but that of the soul. In “The Critical Gaze” the figures that inhabit Gonzalez Palma’s mythic world – angels, devils, hybrid creatures, and enigmatic characters – transcend time and place, suggesting that mysticism, beauty and sorrow, and the human condition are his ultimate subject matter. As you gaze into the eyes of one of Palma’s subjects, it is as if you are looking into their very heart and soul.

Though González Palma is a keeper of pain’s great chronicle, his art shimmers with clarity and insight into who and what we are. It is not so much a lamentation as it is a hymn to what living demands, and an acknowledgment of what humanity entails. His subject may be grief, but it is not despair. These are not always pure photographs but in many cases montages, collages and multi framed constructions, often incorporating fabrics and other mediums.

Luis González Palma was born in Guatemala in 1957. His work has been widely exhibited and is included in many private and museum collections worldwide, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Berlin Museum, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris), and the Los Angeles County Museum. Gonzalez Palma lives and works in Guatemala City.

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