Carlos Quintana
26.7 x 17.1 x 17.1 cm
Carlos Quintana's "Untitled" ceramic sculpture interrogates the stratified psyche through a totemic stacking of human heads, where the azure-glazed superior form—its surface crazed like fractured ice, mouth agape in silent exclamation—perches atop a pallid, wounded base etched with visceral smears of ochre and crimson, evoking the eruption of suppressed anguish from subterranean layers of consciousness. This vertical dialectic disrupts monolithic notions of selfhood, symbolizing the precarious overlay of rational facade upon primal turmoil, where the upper head's ethereal detachment confronts the lower's raw vulnerability, probing themes of psychic bifurcation and cultural amnesia in a post-colonial framework. Extending conceptually to motifs of hybrid resilience, the assemblage posits identity as an unstable edifice, where ceramic fragility mirrors the alchemical tension between disintegration and defiant coalescence, challenging viewers to unearth the unspoken dialogues between elevation and erosion within the human condition.
Provenance
Carlos Quintana StudioExhibitions
Carlos Quintana's "The Diamond’s Shadow" 2019 Solo Exhibition Pan American Art Projects - Miami FloridaCarlos Quintana's "In Finito" 2019 Solo Exhibition at Palazzo Loredan - Venice Italy