Icons and evolution, a new Reading.

   "On the stage of Byzantine-inspired contemporary painting, the proposal of Isabel Creixell is marked by its distinctiveness and audacity. Appreciative of the religious essence of Icon painting and conscious of its reinterpretation of byzantine aesthetics as she confronts its presence.

   Desconstructed and reinvented, the Icons of Isabel Creixell spring forward to the present thought that ruminates in her mind, oscillating between doubt, knowledge and years of accumulated learning. If at its origins Byzantine Painting was the product of artists whose spirituality served as a link between the sacred and the profane, what sort of religiosity is evoked by an image that has remained static in its form: an accepted and obsolete one or a conteporary one that is yet to be defined?

   In this exhibition Isabel Creixell assumes the challenge of Icon painting at its inception and through alterations and reinventions of the image, reveals religious uncertainties of our time. The fragmentgations of the image suggest the fragile corporeality and humanity of deities. With the use of precios stones, which, in their opacity remind us of the regal superficiality, graffiti like clippings reminiscent of the urban desecration of the religious, and books as sculpture objects that assert the presence of the spiritual Word, the artist reveals the search for contemporary religiosity and spirituality.

   Divided into four sections: Royalty series, Dissections, Object-Book and Wall Fragments, the eshibition Icons and Evolution imposes itself as a subtle and energetic provocation of thougt and feeling allowing for the transfiguration of its the image and ist sepresentation and ultimately, our own religiosity and spirituality".

Mariana Vladés Debes

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