About bugs and fashions among fabrics
by AnibalVallejoThe fabrics are raw, without any priming. Its warp and its weft without treatment is seen. Generally they are prepared to receive the pictorial layer, to highlight it, cover it more and even to allow veils. In Vallejo´s work printings and arabesques embroiders are developed. They have been pierced with needles and from it threads stand out, dressmaker ornaments, some parts have been sketched, others painted, and others also used in its original print.
What is the cat on the left with the Elizabethan collar next to the soft black couch doing where a young man rests his glance?
Where does the young woman without a face that rests on the black soft couch aim her head to? It’s like if these two paintings were the same work in a strange dialogue without gestures that could even make up a triptych with the lady with a face included in the exhibition.
A tiger, a dear, a rabbit, a cat, a beetle, a bird, are there placed strategically as a part of the anonymous conjunction, these with own identity, with a precise descriptive pattern, finely detailed. The tiger, say the naturalists, likes to look at himself in the mirrors of water and the beetles indicate the birth, referring to the male that deposits the sperm in balls of excrement that then roll around. The woman gravitating on the water with her face framed in some brand sunglasses reminds us of a Venus coming out of the water or the Ofelia of Hamlet. Also the footwear, the modern chairs, the fashion shoes, the clean lines, the geometrical art references, they are revivals of past times.
The character with the fencing mask, of dear, of bird, with decorated horns. The hidden faces, the suggested bodies, the pleating skirts, the stripped socks, the embroidered dresses with real threads, the big formats, the empty backgrounds, the lack of deepness, the dominant foregrounds, the suggested nature, the commercial brands, the insinuated printings, the detail of the family portrait in the boy´s shirt, the sharp-pointed shoes, the high heels, the children with masks, the huge mushrooms skillfully detailed, the solitude, the empty spaces, the verticality of the collection, shows us an unreal world of fantasy and daydreaming without time nor place in the space.
Margarito Ledesma.

























































