| "The recent work of Enriquillo Rodriguez
Amiama at his current exhibition appears, at first sight, in its diversity
and heterogeneity, marked by syncopated development, by a succession of
ruptures that are not obviously intelligible to the spectator; but, in
spite of this, a profound unity of sense is shown that links the
versatility of the visual forms.
Rodriguez Amiama is a renovator- on a
tropical, contemporary, and even post-modern key-of the symbolic aspect
of baroque still life, and has always been fond of integrating levels and
modes of writing, from the figurative icon to the abstract pictogram and
ideogram. In any case, it seems to us that the most relevant and fertile
approximation to his work, is by way of linguistics. Geared, of course,
towards the elucidation of the sense of a meta-language, i.e. a language
that speaks of the language", in terms similar to those of Magritte's
visual paradoxes, as well as the promiscuity of forms, and the resources
of rhetoric and style that are typical of post- modernity.
In this regard, the ambiguity of spatial
illusionism, the integration of signs and figurative iconology, minimalist
structures and allusions to the iconography of rupestrian art, converge
with allusions to the archaeological, to the social context, to the past
and the future, which seem to be resolved in a kaleidoscopic, changing
vision, in a combination of forms and stylemes. Beyond the relativity of
space and time, it is revealed to us that we also live in the relativity
of linguistic signs. The only absolute reality would be Conscience, which
contains everything that exits, as " in the mind of some Eternal
Spirit", as the philosopher Berkeley would say".
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"Bay at Night" 1996 Collection of the
IDB Bank, Washington D.C.
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