The costarrican artist Leónidas Cantillo

Concept of the sphere and the circle in abstraction

Thinking of the Cosmos, in this vast and incalculable bubble time, matter and mystery, it occurs to me a great blow hopelessly out of nowhere to create this bubble of saliva from God.I refer to the universe expanding spheroid or toroid, which seeks, like all matter, rest on a circular shape. Not talking about a Ptolemaic Universe, perfect and distribution measures, though perhaps not calculated in any dimension, it is. 
 The universe tends to balance mass and energy, strict rules that we call physics and mathematics. From this large order, which some still believe as a fortuitous chaos, are organizing the ways specified time, and ideas of a Creator almost unknown, they establish a scenario that we humans can hardly be seen in a fraction of time from our smallness, that water molecule in the rough TuesIn nature, most of what we can see, refers to the circle or sphere. The architecture of the Cosmos is manifested mostly in circles ... I think of the stones in a river in the fruits of a tree, flower beds, on the planets or galaxies.Although the projected light to our eyes straight lines, no more than the same delusion to see the skyline. The curve is part of everything. From the microcosm to the macrocosm, are erected by areas.

 
In our artificial environment, where we struggle to reform the universal trend is a failed attempt against nature. Not because human reason is linear, or square, maybe it's part of our mistakes. The evolution takes place with the circle, as when he discovered the wheel, for use in our benefit. This evolution of technology we see in aerodynamics, in the aesthetics of everyday utensils, architecture, psychology of Jung, Buddhist mandalas, Reiki, the writer Borges and the concept of time, among many other examples of relationship of the circle with the mind, spirit, science and technology. Our development is aimed at this understanding. Like art. This is my quest and my study in each of my works.As expressed by a renowned architect, Pritzker Prize 1988 (something like the Nobel of architecture) and Prince of Asturias prize of 89, named Oscar Niemeyer:"What attracts me is the free and sensual curves. The curve I find in the mountains of my country. In the waves of the sea. In the favorite woman's body. Curve is made the universe "When human beings managed to conquer the concept of circles in all fields, from the spiritual, psychological, to the scientific and material, we can achieve harmony with our environment, our inner balance and understand the architecture of God for all things both physical and ethereal.

"I am a bohemian traveler, lost in a drop of water, who dreams of the sole of a moldy shoe lying in the middle of the Pleiades, who sleeps with the blanket colors smeared his hands in the morning leaves an imprint of Oil in the cup of coffee ...

 
I do not seek to create to portray a beautiful face or a stunning landscape, these are only technical challenges which have already faced, I managed to dominate so far and ended up boring me. Not so the new world that comes from knowledge and the development of our Self, which are not indispensable everyday objects and faces, perhaps for many others are essential in the visual arts do not get along well with the realism for me is just an attempt to turn our hands and eyes in a camera, which can be admired only from a technical standpoint, but not conceptual. It's like the difference between a light book narrative we read on the bus, and a book of philosophy, we studied in the shelter of our room, which leaves us a new way to go in our imaginations.My painting is a proposal for rational thought and spiritual, where increasingly seek to transform our environment and make it an idea ... pipes and stones weaving a street that goes to to a forgotten word, typing letters on a board and realize that we are sending a bottle into the sea. "

 
"We are in the century of rational change and confront our own reality, we must question this society, science, news, doubt supposed truths and the" order "today. Doubt our doubts, we think. This does not mean believe, not knowing, not understanding. The question brings us to philosophize, to study, to scrutinize and truly believe. And we should not be repetitive or domesticated, we must transform the vision and revolutionize thinking in pursuit of human progress in this new millennium.It is now where the ideological ambivalence should be resolved and prosecute our evolution or our destruction.This existential change is also the responsibility of us artists, but many were diverted in fashions and clichés of contemporary art is lost all dignity and personal creativity. Became indifferent to the spiritual needs and intellectual, personal, social and decorators became empty, colorful canvases makers whose sole purpose is to the overvalued.Consumers know that a real art work means much more than a vague balance of form and color, or a cashier's check, if not a proposal that encourages the viewer to meditation and feeling. Art means to create, and is essential to create something new from our view and knowledge, not on commercial.Art convulsions and setbacks in all areas, and when they need new concepts and revolutionary thought. So in music, literature, architecture, film ... and in the arts. Rescued the art, in a society numb nothingness in smoke and materialism. That art to flourish again with science and philosophy, and we are moving to a new renaissance. "

Atte. Leónidas Cantillo
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