Pan American Art Projects presents Jorge Rios: The Age of the Wind

Saturday, May 1st from 11am – 5pm enjoy the Opening Reception of Jorge Rios: The Age of the Wind at Pan American Art Projects. The gallery is pleased to announce The Age of the Wind, a solo show of Cuban-born artist Jorge Rios, comprised of two main elements: Nature as a metaphor for the substantive real world, and text as a symbol for knowledge. This is a new body of work, with several paintings and watercolors; the show opens on May 1st and closes on July 10th. This event is Free & Open to the Public, RSVP HERE.

The artist describes these paintings as composed of two main elements:

“Nature as a metaphor for the substantive real world and text as a symbol for knowledge. The paradox of describing natural phenomena – that not only precede humanity but is by definition untraceable – is a metaphor to our contradictory instinct of understanding the universe and the narrow limits of this understanding. The structure of the text is always the same grandiose phrase This was the first… This intentional repetition acts as an echo to the repetitive rhetoric and language structure common in religious narratives.”

Jorge Rios’s work transcends the flatness of ordinary visual language reaching the subtlety, ambivalence and complexity that we perceive more clearly in other art forms such as music or poetry. Rios tries to establish through his art a link between the individual experience of reality and the totality of existence.

He currently lives and works in Chicago, Illinois.