The Blind Writer - Danse Macabre Series - Limited Edition of 20 Print

Studied painting and printmaking at the Faculty of Arts and Design of the National University of Mexico (UNAM). He has done both solo exhibitions as well as participated in several collective exhibitions in Mexico and around the world in countries such as Cuba, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia & Czech Republic, just to mention a few. He has experience working with various media such as; Printmaking, Painting, Sculpting, Installation Art and Illustration for children’s books. ON DOUBLES, DANSES MACABRES, AND SEMANTIC GAMES: A FEW DROPS FROM THE UNIVERSE OF EDUARDO LARA The double that exists inside or outside of us. Eduardo makes a foray into the soul using techniques that take us back to the Renaissance and Baroque classics (the foundations of our history, as many would have it) and that lead us, in the end to Hopperian canvases – in their essence and global composition – surrounded by mystery and loneliness. We wonder and ask ourselves whether we are one or require our double – real or imaginary – as in the continual disputes and dilemmas life itself puts us in. Or maybe we are dealing with presences that inhabit our own self? Like a mirror which, instead of allowing us to see what is reflected, shows us a side of ourselves that we are not always prepared to look at, recognize, assimilate. Doubles that speak to us of foldings and unfoldings in the soul, in our identity. Discovering the self through its opposite, its antithesis, its other face. Exercises in courage not suitable for all audiences. Concealment as that which discovers, provides evidence, shouts out in its non-being, making it stronger, more powerful, more present, precisely because it is not in sight. The eyes that deceive, the gaze that is lost, that attempts to tie up loose ends without arriving at a definitive conclusion. A confrontation with the essence of human being. On the other hand, wondering can also have linguistic, semantic, and symbolic roots and in Eduardo Lara's graphic work we come across games that confuse, or even mock us with signs we think we recognize, but are impossible for us to decipher. With appearances that feel real because seem to be what they seem to be. Illustrations that look scientific, occupying a place of respect and trust in our collective imagination, and that we therefore refuse to question.