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 In search of the philosophical stone and the universal panacea through the means of art.
Daniel Kent personifies the paradigm of the artist who resists the inertia of the vanguard movements and distances himself from the dictates imposed by time and space. In this sense, his work could give the impression of being done at another time or another place. His pictorial and sculptural expression demonstrates a manifest interest in mystical and ritual subjects. His use of symbols and technical resources, while characteristic of Flamenco and German medieval art with respect to their functions as formal and iconographic components, gives a nod to the Renaissance period. Not in a literal way, but rather in a contemporary manner.
The nature of Alchemy as a vital force, able to transmute material in primitive states into a sublimated or virtuous substance; the iconographic presence of the Dragon that dissolves the illusion; the woman, representing beauty and spiritual purity; the Cábala and Occultism. Theses subjects are all harnessed by a powerful imagination that offers a great variety of shades; from the philosophical to the sensual, in atmospheres of great compositional austerity, where the description is supported by a meticulousness of drawing and a precise and powerful line.
Daniel Kent (Guadalajara, January 3 /1950) painter, sculptor and graphic artist, studied Architecture and Graphic Design (UNAM 1970-73) and Painting with the master Fres de  Keijzer, in the Ernst Fuchs School, in Vienna. The extensive exhibits historial of his work registers: Universidad Iberoamericana, DF and Galería Picasso (1980), Poliforum Cultural Siqueiros, DF (1981), Galería de la Verriére, Francia and Galería Misrachi, DF (1982), Galería d’Art Sant Pol, San Juan de las Abadesas, Cataluña, España (1985), Palacio Legislativo, DF (1987), Pasillo del Arte Televisa, Guadalajara (1997), Museo del Centenario, Monterrey (1998), Ex Convento del Carmen, Guadalajara (2000), Estación Juárez del Tren Ligero, Guadalajara (2001) y Aqua Gallery, Guadalajara (2004). Some excellent and representative pieces of the pictorial production of this author are in permanent exhibition in: Galería Ocho y más. Show Room Corona 186, Centro.
Ruben Cham – Galería Ocho y más
E-mail: ruben.cham@yahoo.com.mx
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