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The  Artist, Mexico City, 1965

Carlos the friend

I met Carlos twice.  The first time, among thousands of people who gathered for a concert. He went up the stage with a chair in his hands for one of the artists, who was pleading for a shining armor who would rescue her from fatigue. In those days he already knew how to fly.

The second time was at a Vladimir Cora exhibition. We agreed on his work and after that in our interests and goals. The bond that emerged in the middle of color and texture, shape and backgrounds, have remained against time and not only that, but have grown stronger regardless of distance. The year 2001 was beginning.

During this period, Carlos considered himself as a beginning artist. He never said so, but his humbleness did. He knew about his talent, because the Spirit invaded his being from head to toe, and in countless occasions I heard him say it was “by Grace”. But I also understood that he needed the next step. To increase his knowledge in the technique and to break that barrier of fear that is so common in us as human beings.  He was participating in a workshop for abstract painting with Professor Jordi Boldo, who visited Hermosillo, Mexico, as a Guest painter by the Cultural Institute of Sonora, (Instituto Sonorense de Cultura). During that time, he related with outstanding artists from Sonora, and had a chance to share his interests and recognized that feedback is imperative in developing as an artist.

He had previously taken some courses and workshops for welding in San Diego, California, drawing of human figure and etching, with Roberto Parodi and Antonio Pazos, in Hermosillo. His prior Academic formation took place in Bribiesca Art Institute in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he graduated as a Graphic Designer with a specialty in Illustration, and built the first tangible bridge with the visual arts. The intangible connection was inside of him, this was encouraged by his family from his early years.

Carlos the artist

A restless and industrious person under disciplines; with the best nature o fan artist. To break molds and paradigms in search for his own style is part of his life. This is Carloz. Painter, sculptor and designer. In his brilliant path, he has incorporated the knowledge that comes from the light and has discarded anything that interferes with his growth and the path his walking on. He learns, enriches and delivers a consolidated work to the spectator. Nobody knows the hours of invested effort, but we all feel the strength that we can see in the canvass, wood or metal.  We imagine a posible interpretation. Our perceptions defer, but in the end we have the certainty that the piece we have before us is worthy of contemplation.

Carloz travels from figurative to abstract. He has not detached himself completely from recognizable forms although he has decided to distort them to the human eye to show that the identified forms are unnecessary in the presence of God. The sense of his work goes beyond any practice, school, or technique. Generously projecting an orientation to wisdom and showing his position in this world and the inevitable commitment with the Truth.

He has dedicated himself to create a high quality work, through the research of different techniques and the search for expression, with the purpose to evoke subjects that will touch the deepest part of the human being, both spiritually and emotionally, through different disciplines like sculpture and painting. He is quite convinced that talent is a gift from heaven and must be well used in relationship with his environment. Should be multiplied, and to give that gift back is his compromise. Using that gift to talk about his relationship with God is a necessity.

The sculpture and painting of Carols Cazares have been exhibited in different spaces of Sonora and Jalisco, in Mexico; also in Indianapolis and Arizona (Museo de Arte Chicano), in The United States. His work is permanently exhibited in Hermosillo, in Sinomex an Israelite Company (sculpture in metal, 1999); Instituto Alerce (sculpture and mural, 1999) and Gándara Hotels (sculpture in metal and stone, 2000).

With his work “21 shots and still alive” (21 tiros y aun vivo) Carloz won the State’s 2001 Biennial for Sculpture, sponsored by the Government for the State of Sonora through the Instituto Sonorense de Cultura, in November 2001. He also obtained first place in the Contest for the design of the Gulf of California, sponsored by the WWF.GCP (Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico).

He integrated the following individual collections: Graphics in black ink, WWF (1999); Silence of life (painting and graphics, 2001); let there be light  (object art, sculpture and painting, 2002) and  Paradigms (object art and painting, 2003), which found worthy spaces in San Carlos and Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, and in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. In each of these collections, titles, color and form found a direction and in this process Carloz was affirmed as an author.

Carlos The Disciple

Carlos Cazares is in constant movement. His artistic work began to show since 1998. His missionary work would show three years later.  Up to this date he has been able to harmonize both passions, and make them part of the same goal: expression. An inherent need to the author and a job of the disciple.

Through  sculpture he has been able to calmly  develop his gifts, without pressures, unlike painting, for he suffers in conceiving each painting and he tears in the beginning, although after he owns the canvass, he transforms it, and makes it his own. Later peace comes to him… balance.

In "de la vida" (From Life) the author describes the depths of the human being, through carefully and peacefully examining, in a state of contemplation, the contradictions of our human nature. With his three-dimensional work "Sea la Luz" (Let there be light), he signed the path that he is walking and showed to the spectators the inevitable metaphor: the honesty, durability and transcendence of the metal, in representation of the life in Christ.  The "Paradigm" collection was, in a paradox the breaking of molds and established mindsets. In search for the only model to follow, the One who gives life and transforms.

After his Missionary trips to Costa Rica and India, Carlos has evolutioned considerable in every aspect. Body, soul and spirit have been fortified in one goal: to give. At his return, all of that internal fire has been, put into his artistic work, where he moves with love to his neighbor and love for God.

Before the age of 40, Carlos started the "40 Menos uno" collection (40 less one). The passion for the passion. In each piece, our sight can find a triumphant red over darkness. A rich scale of  red that manifest his knowledge, dominion and application  of color and technique, but above all, his certainty that this artistic representation of the lashes upon  the Lamb, bring the spectator the opportunity of hope for a path that leads to the light. There are no brush strokes; there are only strokes, lashes. The entire body of the author in this piece, experiencing pain. The suffering of the artist in relation to the suffering of Christ, evoking the hour when real freedom for the human race began. It is not a posture, is a decision.

Carlos believes in Grace which has given him the opportunity to express the gifts and talents that “Cannot be kept in hiding.

Delma Daleth Monteón

The term epiphany is used by Giacomo Cannobio in the sixties to translate the concept of the "glory of God" which talks about the footprints of His path, or exlained in a more simple way...His presence. In the latter letters written by Paul in the New Testament, he talks about the arrival of Christ to this world as the Emperor who comes to take posessionof His Kingdom (latin: adventus, where the time of Adventus as the preparation for Christmas). From this meaning, the term was used in the Eastern world to point to Christ's manifestation in the flesh , and then from the ninth century, to designat the feast of Jesus' revelation to the heaton world. This is the feast that continues being celebrated on January 6th.

In the Bible's account, Jesus made Himself known to different people in different moments, but the Christian world celebrates as epiphanies 3 different events to know. The epiphany before the wise men (as narrated in Matthew 2:1-12) and is celebrated on January 6th of each year. The epiphany of John the Baptist in the Jordan. And the epiphany's manifestation to his disciples and the beginning of His public life with the Cana's miracle.

In fact, the epiphany feast most celebrated is the one corresponding to January 6th every year in which the wise men, according to tradition (in the translation of Protestant Bibles and actually in the last translations of Catholic Bibles made in ecumenic colaborations and interconfessional ones it is mentioned the adjective wise) named: Melchor, Gaspar and Baltasar that came from the east to worship Jesus' first manifestation as a boy, offering Him three symbolical gifts: gold, incense and myrr. In reality, the Bible does not speak about the name of the wise men, or their number. It's been tradition what later gave them a number and names.

Carlos Cazares

This term refers to the manifestation of a miracle, but the manifestation of God incarnated in Jesus Christ was even more powerful than a miracle .

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Inspired on a Fighter

Inspirado en un Luchador, Ricardo Morales

Death is absorbed by life

¨O death, where is thy sting?¨, says Paul in one of his Letters.

I asked myself these days, how can death be destroyed? And I thought “With life itself”

And I am not talking about the corruptible life, but eternal life.

I normally work with my paintings by collection, but this time I worked in this piece only exercising a much daring contrast of color, but at the same time, trying to find harmony at the same time that I call for contrast, for the theme of this work is the contrast between death and life. Trying to manifest with radiant colors life which absorbs death, which is represented with dark tones.

I found myself between the roughness of texture and the richness of color, and how they find themselves in harmony just like life and death are found in the process towards eternity, trying to harmonize with the course of life experiences that every men seeks to find life, and I am not talking about our natural birth, but life after death, in other words, to be born again.

To sow in the path of life is to die little by little. Before a seed can give its fruit it must suffer a transformation, so our being does not come to life unless we die first.

It is very easy for us to understand that dying to ourselves brings forth spiritual fruit, for we are born in this body which is corruptible, and its necessary to be born again in the spiritual, the incorruptible and being born again are related to dying to our selfishness in order to open our doors to love.

To triumph over death has a lot to do with having victory over our sin, which is the sting of death. Victory is found in life itself.

 Carlos Cazares

¨Death is absorbed by life¨ collection

May 2006