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Shouts and Silences
By: Rubén Cham - June 2005
 In recovery of the classicism, Agustín Castro Lopez watches back to the methods and styles previous to century XX and, celebrating the tenebrous painters, the flamenco ones, the black tradition (Goya, the Greco) and the impressionism, proposes different perspectives, times, rhythms and expressions of dynamism, in an excels paraphrase of the old painting with contemporary narratives.
Painting realized with the contrast of shouts and silences. Syncopated language whose support is based in the rupture of scales and in the graphical tension taken to the extreme, in the trowel that holds the primacy of the colour with classic references which it is, simultaneously, distinguishing of the author and in the very well obtained balance between the content and the form.
Author with a solid presence in the national and international circuits of the plastic arts, centres his narrative in the discovery of the human being -- as far as the social reality in which he is immersed -- followed with the representation of the individual, throughout a process that alludes, in first instance, to the genealogy of the clothes -- the necktie, the coat, the space-and describes next, faces, hands and bodies, that soon undresses with the intention to explore its gestural anatomy, until arriving at the transgression of the human flesh, in an authentic essay of introspection, that confers to his painting a powerful psychic, animist and emotional look. Oils and mixed techniques in great format, sum of technical virtues and a high creative capacity.
 Thanks to the lucky coordination of efforts on the part of Pierre Renucci and Cecilia Bojórquez and, with the support of the Direction of Municipal Culture, from May 17 and during a month, Agustín Castro Lopez imparts a course of painting to a group of 20 students, in the Cuale Cultural Center. Fundamental aspects of the drawing, free and gestural painting exercises and the use of textures, will be the introduction to the mixed technique, approaching to the composition and, of course, the balanced dialogue between form and content. The program includes the accomplishment of a piece of Agustín Castro Lopez, with the intervention of the group -- on the way of the great teachers of the antiquity -- in addition to the accomplishment of four pieces, on the part of each student, that will give rise to a collective exhibition in Córsica Gallery
(representing the author in the locality) on June 18th, event that will mark the conclusion of the course.
Agustín Castro Lopez (Mexico DF, 1958) studied Painting in the Academic of Plastic Arts, Bachelors School (74-77) and in the National School of Painting and Engraving La Esmeralda (81-86). From 1979, has celebrated multiple exhibitions of his work, between which we emphasize: General offices of the Bachelors School (1982), National Hall of Plastic Arts, Gallery of the National Institute of Fine Arts INBA, in where he was distinguished with the Prize of Acquisition (1987), Biennial Rufino Tamayo, Honorary Mention (1991), "Érase una vez en el campamento de los jurásicos", Azzul Gallery Space, DF (1993), "Paisajes Transitados", Hacienda Cultural Center (1994), Dell Chopo Museum, DF (1996) and V Biennial International, Cuenca, Ecuador (1996). Work of his authorly are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Mexico, DF and MARCO, Monterrey.
The coat of arms is framed by a marine anchor hanging from a cable as a symbol that in poetic terms the city is a daughter of the sea..
It was designed by the painter José Manuel Martínez Peña from Jalisco.
Rubén Cham
E-mail: ruben.cham@yahoo.com.mx
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