Keep Contemporary presents
Milka Lolo and Fran De Anda : BESTIARY
Friday December 22nd 5-8 pm
142 Lincoln ave Santa Fe New Mexico
Drinks - Food - Music - Culture- Community- Holiday Cheer !
for pricing come into the gallery or visit our website at www.keepcontemporary.com

Milka Lolo ( Mexico City ) :
My work consists of the re-interpretation of characters, myths, and narrations of the Mexican folk imaginary. These narratives are presented as a living manifestation of an ancestral culture, which has been transformed as it has integrated into a globalized society.
In my work, I recreate the process of cultural miscegenation by incorporating elements and universal concepts to the myths and legends of the Mexican tradition. While I create a contemporary version of them, which allows them to remain valid in the collective memory and, at the same time, generate an own aesthetic, with a metaphorical language based on referents such as surrealism, symbolism, magical realism, artistic illustration, fantastic art, and indigenous art.
The aesthetic discourse of my work starts from the manifestations and artistic expressions that the human being creates in response to his concern about his origin and place in the world.
Through experimentation and application of traditional techniques together with the most recent materials, I emphasized the importance of syncretism, which gives form and character to our contemporary identity.

Fran De Anda ( Mexico City ) :

Fran De Anda lives and works in Mexico City. In his work he touches on themes related to the human condition. Based on ancient myths and archetypes, he develops concepts such as transformation, death, alchemy, the sacred and the profane. Having a strong connection with ancient art, it takes up elements of the Renaissance, the Baroque and symbolism. Through the use of traditional pictorial techniques such as grinding his own pigments, and the use of tempera, oil, silver and gold leaf, he develops an interpretation of the mysterious and sacred in man and his relationship with nature within a mystical-symbolic vision.