Salmos Painting

I was born and grew up until I reached adolescence, in a small town in the south of Jalisco, land of Tequila, mariachi and José Clemente Orozco, Juan Soriano, Raúl Anguiano, Juan José Arreola and Juan Rulfo. After a childhood marked by the tutelary restriction of religion, I gradually developed my imaginary world, which has since led me to an understanding of reality through the discovery of my own body. The body as a pictorial constant was introduced into my work, thanks to comic magazines, as well as religious representations, hence the constant references to these signs and their particular visual discourse. The nude has been a part of my work since my early days, when – still a teenager – my father tried to censor the use of my newly discovered sexuality as a subject of my art. From then on, the representation of the nude, predominantly male, has symbolized for me the possibility of expressing myself as an autonomous individual, owner of every part of myself and capable of exercising my right to enjoy and manage it. Nudism, as a kind of liberation, not helplessness, permeates my works in which men discover themselves and others, enjoying the possibility of meeting, comparing and relating through the senses and physical contact. In art as the religion of my life, I touch the limits of desire and its realization, while I paint men who, by containing their forces, project them as vibrations that tense the environment recharged by buried homoeroticism and the spirit of the male that tries to impose itself on its competitors.