Alfonso Endara - Luis Alfonso Endara Moreno
Born in the City of Quito - Ecuador on July 8th, 1960 has perfected his art through over 30 years of explorative and passionate work and, by sharing with European masters, has developed a formidable expertise and a polished technique of repeated thin layers of oil paint, as ancient painters used to apply to the canvas. Humans are the axial point of is artistic creation.
Projecting both at the national and international level, he has to his credit more than 60 individual and group exhibitions, mainly working in series as in the most renowned cases of: Arts, Crafts and Still Life, Mimes and Clowns, Seduction to Michelangelo, The Secret of Decadence, Confrontation and Faces, Traces and Root, among others.
His first solo exhibition of realism and figure “Arts, Crafts and Still Life” epitome of Endara´s work, was hold in the Colonial Art Museum in Quito on 1983. Like Renaissance masters, this work evokes, dignifies and perpetuates the daily work of ordinary people nobody will notice.
“Mimes and Clowns”; presents masquerades of pain that reveal the inner conflicts of the people, smiles full of suffering in their constant struggle between joy and suffering, good and evil.
He has also recreated his public with his “Seduction to Michelangelo”, an effort and a challenge to use the corpulent anatomy of Michelangelo as a frame to express the sensuality, innocence and strength of a common bride.
A next exhibition tells of the manipulation of society and the woman's claim that go deeper into the intimate spiritual language of “The Secret of Decadence”, manifesting the need to stop living values that are devalued, and start living principles that are permanent and eternal.
His most recent work titled “Confrontation” makes semblance of those deep issues of the inner soul that embarrass and hurt, and that have to be exposed to light, and the light of God for them to be healed and for people to be free.
His latest art work called “Faces, Traces and Roots” reflects invisible and unnoticed people. Tanned and faded faces by the sun and time, men and women who load their burdens and those of others, faces of humility, dignity and innocence.
Born in the City of Quito - Ecuador on July 8th, 1960 has perfected his art through over 30 years of explorative and passionate work and, by sharing with European masters, has developed a formidable expertise and a polished technique of repeated thin layers of oil paint, as ancient painters used to apply to the canvas. Humans are the axial point of is artistic creation.
Projecting both at the national and international level, he has to his credit more than 60 individual and group exhibitions, mainly working in series as in the most renowned cases of: Arts, Crafts and Still Life, Mimes and Clowns, Seduction to Michelangelo, The Secret of Decadence, Confrontation and Faces, Traces and Root, among others.
His first solo exhibition of realism and figure “Arts, Crafts and Still Life” epitome of Endara´s work, was hold in the Colonial Art Museum in Quito on 1983. Like Renaissance masters, this work evokes, dignifies and perpetuates the daily work of ordinary people nobody will notice.
“Mimes and Clowns”; presents masquerades of pain that reveal the inner conflicts of the people, smiles full of suffering in their constant struggle between joy and suffering, good and evil.
He has also recreated his public with his “Seduction to Michelangelo”, an effort and a challenge to use the corpulent anatomy of Michelangelo as a frame to express the sensuality, innocence and strength of a common bride.
A next exhibition tells of the manipulation of society and the woman's claim that go deeper into the intimate spiritual language of “The Secret of Decadence”, manifesting the need to stop living values that are devalued, and start living principles that are permanent and eternal.
His most recent work titled “Confrontation” makes semblance of those deep issues of the inner soul that embarrass and hurt, and that have to be exposed to light, and the light of God for them to be healed and for people to be free.
His latest art work called “Faces, Traces and Roots” reflects invisible and unnoticed people. Tanned and faded faces by the sun and time, men and women who load their burdens and those of others, faces of humility, dignity and innocence.
Luis Alfonso Endara Moreno
8 de Julio de 1.960
Nació en la Ciudad de Quito - Ecuador el 8 de Julio de 1960, todos sus estudios académicos los realizó en la Ciudad de Quito, en la Escuela de los Hermanos Cristianos, en el Colegio Luis Gonzaga y en la Universidad Central del Ecuador.
Perfeccionó su arte compartiendo con maestros europeos.
Ha desarrollado un trabajo minucioso desde sus inicios hasta desarrollar una formidable maestría en la plástica proyectándose no solo a nivel nacional sino internacional.
Realizó su primera exposición individual de realismo y la figura plasmada en lienzo, lo que ha sido el arquetipo de Endara.
Tiene a su haber más de 40 exposiciones entre individuales y colectivas, en una técnica depurada, ha gustado trabajar en series (en especial las últimas 506 exposiciones) tal es el caso de artes, oficios y bodegones. Trabajo digno de cualesquier maestro del renacimiento evoca, dignifica y perenniza el trabajo cotidiano de aquellos que para el común de las personas pasa totalmente desapercibido.
Luego vino la serie mimos y payasos; mascaradas de dolor que dejan entrever los conflictos íntimos de las personas, esa lucha constante entre el gozo y el sufrimiento, el bien y el mal; esas sonrisas muecas de dolor, esa "simulación de la lucha por la vida", que nos ilustra personajes con sus medias caras pintadas.
Nos ha recreado también con su SEDUCCIÓN A MIGUEL ÁNGEL, en la cual una mujer ataviada de novia comienza a moverse y a desvestirse ante el apacible Adán y el violento dios de Miguel Ángel, Hasta adentrarse en el mural, transformando sus suaves y finas líneas, en la corpulencia anatómica típica del maestro de la Sextina; para luego salir de la fría pared a enredarse en el amorío mítico de Adán y Eva; serie que ni el mismo pintor sabía donde terminaba, si no que un día él mismo dijo: " ¡Ya me cansé de esto! "/ y terminó en beso apasionado ante la mirada cómplice de aquel dios.
Una de las últimas exposiciones nos habla del manipuleo de la sociedad, de los muchos y tantos ofrecimientos que sólo son venalidades, y de la reivindicación de la mujer, ese adentrarnos más en ese íntimo lenguaje espiritual de EL SECRETO DE LA DECADENCIA, donde la necesidad de dejar de vivir valores, que se desvalorizan, y comenzar a vivir principios que son permanentes y eternos; de la necesidad de vivir verdades ya no realidades que siempre son cambiantes.
Es necesario recalcar la elogiosacrtica que ha recibido fuera del país, ya que sus obra han sido expuestas y admiradas en diferentes países y se encuentran incluidas en muestras permanentes y de grandes coleccionistas en América, Europa y el Caribe. Se ha destacado en el Salón Luis A. Martínez, Mariano Aguilera, Bienal de Cuenca. En las Galerías del Museo de Bogotá, Cali, en el Centro Cultural Mexicano, en la Galería Vértice Guadalajara, Puerto Vallarta y Querétaro en México. Su obra ha visitado ferias internacionales en Dubai, Shangai y Arwi en Puerto Rico, entre otras.
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