With pieces in augmented reality

With pieces in augmented reality, they pay tribute to the Mexican artist Luis Valsoto

Guadalajara (Mexico), Nov 5 (EFE).- With an exhibition that includes four pieces intervened with augmented reality, as well as paintings, drawings and graphics, the Mexican artist Luis Valsoto received a tribute to his more than 50 years of career in the Guadalajara Regional Museum, western Mexico.

Valsoto told EFE this Sunday that the intervention of some of his oil paintings with augmented reality technology complements the aesthetics of the work and offers viewers another dimension to approach it.

“With movement, it seems interesting to me at that moment that my painting serves as an actor in theater, film or whatever you want and then it becomes a second vision, let's say, if you later take photographs of the movement itself, It is already another painting, it is another movement, another dimension,” he said in an interview.

“Between the real and the fantastic” brings together 30 pieces, two of them unpublished, made throughout the career of the Mexican Valsoto, recognized for his work in which everyday scenes and urban characters stand out, which has been exhibited in museums and galleries from Mexico and other countries.

Valsoto's work belongs to important art promoters such as the Blaisten Collection, the Black Coffee Gallery Foundation Collection, the Pueblo de Jalisco Collection, among others.

The augmented reality pieces were originally intervened for the exhibition at the Bruna gallery last January, the work of programmers and animators, who managed to make some of the characters come to life and move using QR codes, which are scanned from any mobile device.

This possibility allows young people to get closer to his work, although it is not the only one, since it is important not to lose sight of the fact that the new generations do not get lost in informalisms to learn about art, considered Valsoto.

“Young people have the capacity to understand what was then and what is now, a young person with a good education admires a Rembrandt or a Picasso, young people are eager for new things and often fall into informalism, which is not very good. for art,” he noted.

“Between the real and the fantastic” will remain at the Regional Museum of Guadalajara until January 2024.