Exposición · Through May 27, 2022
Zurumbático
Says Cobelo of his work: Zurumbático is a never-ending journey to the place where writer Gabriel García Márquez's book ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ was born. A story full of the lifeblood that permeates thousands of Latin American little towns, the roots of that giant empirical hemisphere - passionate, forgotten, fickle, violent and, above all, happy. Aracataca is the country where Gabriel García was born and which inspired his original Macondo. This place, and the surrounding geographical area in this Caribbean part of Colombia, was my starting point.
“The book was my leitmotiv and what emerged was a set of spontaneous and original images: a process of intimate, poetical, magical, dreamlike and sometimes painful self-examination loaded with symbolism and enigmatic stories linked to this way of being a ‘continent’, that for me meant a rebirth as a person, as an individual who is nurtured by this bleeding, Latin-American spinal cord.
“Zurumbático” is a dimension, where everything that you can think of (and even those things you could not think of) become possible. Is also a tunnel of feelings, sensations, effects and special events that I enter and exit whenever I choose. Submerged in this dimension, I came to understand, to reconfirm, that all that is extraordinary, unusual or commonplace in life, the comic and even the tragic, has no explanation. We should not ask for one and we should not seek one. That's all. Reality or not, It is what it is.
“Zurumbático” means "a person who acts silly, clumsy, foolishly. Someone who is stunned, slow, somber, melancholic, enigmatic, half drunk, half mad, and with a bad or inconstant temper. It's also the sensation of a trance."
- Cuándo
- Through May 27, 2022
- Dónde
- Leica Store Miami, 372 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables
