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EGO X GEO - Eduardo Capilla

Eduardo Capilla. From the performance EGO X GEO, at Braga Menéndez Gallery in Buenos Aires. Courtesy of the artist.

Braga Menéndez Gallery - Buenos Aires

The performance took place on December 11, 2008

By María Carolina Baulo

Eduardo Capilla tries to show on the outside a shape growing from the inside, an essence. The will, present in his art works, is the appreciation of natural beauty, including the human body, as the safest road to achieving well-being. But this beauty carries an attitude that symbolizes the sacrifice that the artist believes all humans should assume before the divine creation. Following these thoughts, that sacrifice also symbolizes the imminent need to modify the way we relate and interact with each other and the way we communicate with our surrounding world.

In EGO X GEO, his purpose is to get rid of individualism and focus on integration instead. The artist pursues equilibrium in the cohabitation of the different parts and elements of the world, always respecting nature’s supremacy. He positions bodies containing, supporting and holding delicate floral arrangements that symbolize the universe and its magnitude; he establishes a dialogue, some kind of communication with the ideal he constantly keeps in mind while he organizes those wonderful scenarios.

In the photographs of the series - some of them the result of public performances and some others taken in the studio - we discover that he translates, from his spot in the world deeply nurtured by the Occidental culture, the powerful symbolic meaning kept within the Oriental culture.

Nature’s beauty, its growth and development is the driving force behind Capilla´s work. In the Orient, “beauty” is found locked inside the seed and it will grow until it turns into a plant or a flower. The codes in Oriental philosophy are much more subtle than the ones the Occident has on how to understand what is beautiful and what is not; concepts that the Occident has tried to impose as the one and only worldwide. In EGO X GEO, the artist learns from the ancestral knowledge that the Orient provides and recreates a sacred place where nature itself develops, interacting with and fully connected to the woman’s body in representation of humankind.

EGO X GEO presents the combination of the flowers’ and the women’s symbolism -leitmotif of Occidental art-, where sexuality, in both cases, is exposed to be admired; its seduction is so powerful that it captures and fascinates the spectator. The artist, a man enchanted by that power, chooses to combine those perspectives seeking an aesthetic result in the way he distributes the formal elements, as well as the postures of the bodies. There is no tension or forced movement; everything seems to flow; there is absolute harmony. The woman is the continent; she symbolically and concretely contains not only her own life and charm, but the one represented and presented in the elegant dance between flowers and women, where the combination of both becomes an “object of desire” that seduces universally.

EGO X GEO presents Mother Nature, absolutely stripped of any kind of trick, showing its magnificence and splendor.

Maria Carolina Baulo: Art writer based in Argentina. She is specialized in Art History, with studies in Cinematography, Photography and Theatre. macabaulo@hotmail.com

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