The exhibition that brings together Latin artists in Madrid

Color and versatility shape the exhibition that brings together Latin artists in Madrid
Vibrant colors and varied techniques shape 'Latin Power', an exhibition that brings together nine creators from Argentina, Peru, Venezuela, Mexico and Spain, and that seeks to consolidate Madrid as a key meeting point for Latin American artists.

The exhibition, which opens this Saturday and can be visited until March 29, hosts works by Mexican Andrés Anza, Argentine Claudio Roncoli, Spaniard Daniel Fuster, Peruvians Gianna Poladoro, Melissa Dupont, Michelle Prazak and Nader Barhumi, and Venezuelans Leonardo Moleiro and Luigi Rockets.

Tamara Kreisler, owner of the gallery that hosts the exhibition (and that bears her name), explained to EFE that her gallery has an "international vocation" and seeks to bring artists from other parts of the world to Madrid, which is why she is opening the door to holding other editions of 'Latin Power' in the future.

"For me, color is a common point with almost all the artists I work with, as is interest in the environment; these are the two lines I work with and Latin America is a source of inspiration," she explained.
Beyond dreams and borders

The Peruvian artist Nader Barhumi has lived in Spain for 12 years, although he says he does not believe in geography and borders, which is why he finds it "interesting" to join with other Latin American creators to take his art to other parts of the world, in this case Madrid.

The works he exhibits in 'Latin Power' are the most recent in his production, in which he has used a more "gestural and violent" technique than in previous works, because he confesses to feeling influenced by "the times we are living in."

However, the Venezuelan Leonardo Moleiro claims to live an opposite process: "I have a fairly elaborate work in me and I am not really influenced by what is happening around me."

According to him, he creates his paintings, very colorful and almost mural-like, from his conversations with the star Sirius, which shows him through dreams the images of eyes and women that he captures in his paintings.

His work has taken him to many cities around the world, "a bit like a nomad," so he is grateful to exhibit in Madrid with other artists with whom he can exchange experiences and learn about their proposals.
Art of crowds

Argentine Claudio Roncoli shares Moleiro's sentiment: "We are all a bit nomadic, travelling from country to country, sometimes living for months in the same country, and I think that is also evident in the work."

Roncoli sees this exhibition as an opportunity to take advantage of the "artistic effervescence" that is currently taking place in Madrid, where he brings his work based on the combination of elements of pop art and retro graphics.

The artist is inspired by the advertising of the 1950s in the United States, which marked the consumption and lifestyle of mass culture in the West.

The paintings of the Venezuelan Luigi Rockets also "contain crowds," although from a different perspective.

Thanks to a unique technique by which he creates compositions from hundreds of used postage stamps, which carry the DNA of the people who licked them to place on their letters, giving rise to characters with "thousands of people inside," explained the artist.

In his compositions we can see stamps from India, Germany, Cuba or the Netherlands, although, as he explained, in his latest works they are "mostly from Spain", which is where he lives and where he became friends with the president of the country's Philatelic Association, who gave him "suitcases full of stamps".
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