ARTURO E.
MOSQUERA

During several months and days in the year 2020, Mosquera intensively photographed plants, seeds, nuts, flowers and sky, images of his surroundings on a productive artist burst which produced a large body of paintings, titled From the Pandemic Series. Eventually, this intimate experience led him to produce a one-of-a-kind photographic image which involved his foreseen landscape.

He envisioned an installation and chose as its title This could be Heaven or this could be Hell, referencing the Eagles’ song Hotel California. With this image, Mosquera moved from a small scale format to a large one, transferring a symmetrical composition to a centrally triptych one, referencing the notable front piece of Hobbes’ Leviathan book. The name Leviathan is derived from a biblical passage which declares the presence of God, often at moments of tension or tragedy. In fact, two triangles are divided by a horizontal line with a central focal point, in larger than human scale. The narrative is in close relation to the viewer; the reflection of the pool’s clear water as a symbol of a single event.

The installation can be experienced from specific space and time; the gaze of the reflection records the perception of the artist.

The project forms a connection between the past, the present and the future dealing with architecture and utopias, addressing his view of the relationship between the landscape-myth and reality.

Angela Valella