by Margaret Failoni

Antonio Chaurand lives and works in Mexico City, but in 1989 was born in Celaya, Guanajuato, a land he knows well. He is a graduate of the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende (Guanajuato University) and studied under the tutelage of the renowned artist Ignacio Maldonado. In his successful career, he has been the recipient of numerous scholarships and awards.

I remembered seeing his detailed work of interiors, working with light and dark. Therefore, this collection of landscape art is a surprise element. It makes one question what is the relationship between science, time and human insight? These images blur the lines between art, science and space intervention.

In these paintings the artist pinpoints certain eye-catching views of our surrounding landscapes; the cacti, the succulents, the sun-dried hills beyond and the rambunctious cloud formations during the rainy season. The exquisite charcoal drawings on concrete slabs seem to remind us of our damaged earth. He really cares and so should we. Let's take time to stop and take in this beautifully delivered message.

Beautiful, brazen and bazaar, many family homes have shaped art history; whether through father and son (the Wyatts) or artist couples serving as muses (Pollack and Krasner), but to name a few.

Born in Gunma, Japan in February of 1986, Ena Sakamoto met her late husband, the renowned artist Yui Sakamoto, in New York where she was studying to be a manicurist. She followed him to Mexico and immediately after marriage became his student. Before choosing San Miguel, Yui had been teaching at Aguascalientes Art Academy and as we can judge from the paintings in this exhibition, he was an excellent teacher.

The superb painting quality is brazenly present but with a totally different vision of the world. Ena's work underscores the enduring role of family, as both a catalyst and companion in the creative process. For children? For adults? For romantics? How to describe this work. At first glance, the viewer is captured by the amazing technical skill in Ena Sakamoto's paintings. Each canvas is a small, precious jewel in its exactitude, not a hair out of place. But then this amazing technique takes us to a surreal world of dreams. The fairy tales are metaphors belying, with kindness, an amazing skill in transferring the viewer into a wonderland.

Now that their five children are all in school, we are hoping Ena will be able to dedicate more time to her magnificent art.

Galería Intersección, Fabrica la Aurora, 18-A
415-120-0944, interseccionartsma@gmail.com
www.interseccionart.com

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Margaret Failoni was born in New York City, studied at the School of Industrial Art, one year at the Fashion Institute of Technology, and received a degree in Art History from Hunter College. She flew with PanAm as a flight attendant so as to visit the world's museums and archaeological sites. After a year in Portugal, she quit the airlines and moved to Italy where she worked with art galleries and print publishing companies before opening her own gallery and print publishing company in 1981. Her published prints have been exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art prints department.

Marge started with the US Information Agency, curating shows throughout Italy for several years. Once arriving in Mexico in 1993, she curated shows for several provincial museums and is presently the curator for the Interseccion Gallery at the Fabrica Aurora.

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