In this exhibition, we present some of the work of the artist Adrian Iturburu, a sample that includes 15 pieces, each one carried out using a mixed media technique on canvas, between 2009 and 2010, and representing a part of his latest and most recent personal work.
 
It is an exhibition that aims to bring the observer close to a personal and irreverent poetic form, which embodies a unique vision and serves as a way to understand the synthesized process of life itself, the fusion and assimilation of modern civilization, industrialized society, art and politics. 

A process of drawing close to that personal conceptual idea, which is translated to the realm of the senses and the pictorial experience, through drawings of intense color, and which attempt to drag us through an intense and profound reflection on our direct responsibility in all of the events of our lives.
 
The work critiques without a doubt the modern civilized world, excessively industrialized, which dissolves our identity and brings about our self-destruction every day. The intention is to bring us close to the primitive, expressing a rejection of modern civilization, and manifesting a desire to go back to that pre-industrial world, where there was a more intimate relationship with nature.
 
What seems like a human head, is disfigured with illusory images or irrational ones, with dehumanizing elements, acquiring an “astral form”, not divine, but previous to industrial civilization and reminding us of those ancient and primitive humans. 


In this world that I attempt to create, a primitive and symbolic world, these elements represent for me everything that is spiritual, in clear opposition to the material objects of modern life that currently surround us and that we utilize.
 
For me the real world is the world beyond appearances. Behind the veil of illusion, appears the truth, but in the meantime we will continue our days in this fluctuating world, transitory and impermanent. That essence which is hidden to us, but on which our existence depends, is the very appreciation of the different components that make up our lives. 

The transcendence of the spiritual captured in my work, in the floating sensation of these faces, in the detachment of a body that connects to the earth- in other words, with the idea of the materialist superficiality of the world in which we live, from that separation, reappear those primitive feelings that take us beyond the mask of illusion which covers us continuously. 


To highlight that dreamlike sense of the supernatural in the subject of this work remains an interest for the subjective, the irrational. The mere appearance of the object is not what remains, but through it the supernatural is reached, which is connected to a special interest in the spiritual. In my paintings I don’t attempt to express the external world, but that of dreams and fantasies through allusions to symbols. 

Painting is the mode to express my state of mind, emotions and ideas, as an individual, through the symbol or idea.

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