Cities of the Mind: Carlos Estevez in the ON::View Residency
On view through November 5, 2022
Sulfur Studios
Savannah, Georgia
sulfurstudios.org
Carlos Estevez’s work is animated by questions of human spirituality. His goal is to use his work to reveal the invisible realm beneath the visible world, a process that he refers to as an alchemical, metaphysical transformation of mystery into knowledge. The imagery that populates his paintings, drawings, sculptures, and installations bears a dreamy, child-like quality, with recurring references to marionettes, automatons, fantastical architectures, cosmic geometries, angelic beings, and strange, chimerical creatures.
His project, “Cities of the Mind,” will map the human mind through the creation of his own maps. He will study urbanism and the history of local architecture to understand the socio-political roots of the human settlements, their implications from the past and their projection to the future.
[Image: Carlos Estevez, Vision interna del espacio exterior, 2017. Oil and watercolor, pencil on canvas, 96 inches diameter]
