Mixed Media on Canvas
Sizes: 158 cm x 192 cm.
Year Created: 2013
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Ready to hang

Style / Topic

Style: Symbolism
Theme: Spirituality

The artist confesses that his work does not only respond to a process of experimentation with the chimó as pictorial material, but also to the connection with the esoteric world, with the cult of Queen Maria Lionza in which he participates as a devotee and practitioner. "I began to experience the use of the chimó during the time I lived in the town of Ospino in the Edo. Portuguese It was an important part of my connection with the culture of the inhabitant of the plains, with the environment and the geographical context. Initially opt for its use as an extension and connection with the spiritual world, to sacralize the "powerful dead" and the benefactor spirits and thus achieve the fulfillment of the requests made in the pursuit of well-being in health, love and work .

For Calvetti each work carries a language, it is a system of writings based on images and symbols with meanings loaded with the energy that the chimó contributes, also used as pictorial material; along with the exorcizing and healing action of tobacco from its smoke and its ashes and the purifying action achieved with direct liquor sprays. In this way, he converts each work into densely symbolic, religious, and cosmogonic material, thus transforming the works destined for aesthetic contemplation into objects of religiosity, of mystical representation, of initiation, of ceremonials.