SANTOS
personal mythologies
hex
2011
90” x 66”
(installation of 21,
each sheet 30” x 22”)
Colored pencil, graphite, gold leaf
on stonehenge paper
*Photo Credit:
Paul Litherland 2012
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Delving into questions surrounding migration and memory, Personal Mythologies presents works by two Montreal-based artists, Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo and Marigold Santos. Characterized by a hybridized visual aesthetic, their art practices collectively reference everything from religious iconographies, storybook illustrations, children’s games, textiles, and medieval bestiaries to political propaganda posters, medical drawings, tattoos, and horror films. Melding elements of these disparate sources, the artists create colourful and complex imagined worlds, each with their own specific visual vocabulary and internal logic.
