Alejandro Avakian

Avakian paints with his body. Every time he faces a canvas, his thoughts are on a waiting beat. The emptiness provokes him. Everything that does not exist and can be, is there, latent. He gives himself to the impulse and paints. Paints and he finds himself. Colors that merge, strokes that multiply, light and darkness, silence and music. The brushstrokes are screams, tears, laughter, pentagrams.
Convened by the artist and White Art Gallery, Frías Otl designed a book that compiles his enormous pictorial work, prints and inks. An editorial piece that plays with the contrast between reason and the visual and emotional overflow of Avakian’s work.