Opio Inglés

Opio Inglés (28) is an Argentinian artist whose primal search consists of taking the "detail" to the center of the image. According to this passion, Opio had studied Medieval Book Aesthetics, ornament details of Flemish painting and decorative Arts between 15th and 20th centuries. To those interests, we could add an incurable fascination for the 19th- century literature, principally Charles Baudelaire, Jean Lorrain and Thomas De Quincey.  

 

Artist Statement:

 

A page of my curious diary waits for a new reflection, a feeling, a brief moment of my miserable existence (insistence).

 

I satisfy its peculiar and imperative desire, with the vain wish of not lose the elegance, not lose the freshness.

 

But a sudden and unknown adulthood had taken my freshness away. On its place, imperfect, impenetrable, and sterile elegance.

 

Elegance? The writer practices Charles Baudelaire's dandyism and the aestheticism of "decadent" literature’s narration.

 

Narration? The delirious structures which configure her images, find its foundational stone in the accumulation and transmutation of the celebrate words, by the most "incorrect" characters of the 19th-century.

 

Paradoxically, these words don't say…They curse!

 

The extravagance of her encodes messages, bone her with some kind of invented esotericism.