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A study

By Rigoberto Sanchez Azcona

Merde, shit, shit, Does life have meaning? , shamelessly asks us and lividity Patricio Bustamante, founder and most representative of Paleolithic exponent Contemporary artistic movement that, while no longer struggle to achieve recognition among the masses and other starchy ornamental, not yet achieved full recognition in the circles most conservative of curators and art galleries in the country.

garde artists, Bustamante sentenced contemporary Latin American art death, sick-in his words that "the art establishment refuses to evolve into the only possible, but it pretends to be a setback. The earth is dead, the art is a déjà vu, back to dance against the fires. "Bonfire of the Vanities, the egos of the high esteem in excess of flattery, fires of perdition and regret that seek to drag on in saecula saeculorum .

So, once again, Patricio Bustamante gives us a slap on the cheeks, we then breathes the soul is pierced with a pin and crush the pedantry floating like gas exiting, returning to basics, reduced to a few lines and strokes now firm, now trembling, sometimes speculative, sometimes simplistic, sometimes predictable, sometimes representing bulls, bison and other animals to hunt. Because Bustamante's work is fortuitous. As well explained Francis Bacon about his work, but bears no formal similarity with that of Bustamante, if you have the essentials:

It came to me as an accident. I Was Attempting to make a bird alighting on a field. And It May Have Been In Some way bound up with the three forms That Had Gone Before, But Suddenly the line drawn Suggested That I Had Something Totally Different and this suggestion Arose out of this picture. I Had no intention to do this picture, I Never Thought of it in that way. It Was like one continuous accident Mounting on top of Another.

Bustamante Everything is accidental since, as Bacon, can not hit the target with the idea that you represent, but because of his spirit of rebellion able to overcome this lack of expertise and become the founder of a art school avant-garde of the moment.

The déjà vu existential promotes Bustamante (ab irato, corpore unburied ) through Contemporary Paleolithic is nothing that on the one hand, a provocation mare magnum, and secondly, a constant variation, mutatis mutandis a , in other words, a symptom of the contradiction of our time, and not through an existential nausea and uncontrollable without alka "Zeltser that the remedy, like Taylor, but only a slight embarrassment caused by such artistic fantochería.

That's why Contemporary Paleolithic actively manifests against the seemingly minimalist visual art returning to its origins, above making a minimal way, sometimes in caves, sometimes in caves, sometimes in crevices, sometimes in pit latrines, as the artist of anything goes when it comes to expressing his contempt for kitsch and its counterpart, minimalism neat and wrong, that abound in contemporary Latin American art.

Patricio Bustamante (Chile, 1958). Exhibition "Batcave memory" from June 27 to July 15, 2007 in Gallery Alfonso Prado, Oaxaca (MX).