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Two at a Time Two Everywhere

Moca-America, Miami Estados Unidos 2023

Antonio Espinosa, Alain Pino Curated by Maeva Peraza Moca-A. At first glance, it would seem that there is no discernible connection between the works of Antonio Espinosa and Alain Pino. They are two artists with divergent trajectories, and one might say, polarized. However, beyond the themes that obsess both creators, they are unified by the procedural conception of their pieces, the transformation of a primordial idea that evolves into artistic expression.
They are both visual producers, educated in Cuban art academies, who participated in the generational will of the nineties, the era in which they initiated their artistic endeavors. They should not be considered as pinnacle exponents of their generation, for both have been somewhat of outsiders, skirting around its dynamics without fully participating in them.
Today, they continue their careers in the United States, offering us two distinct and extremely attractive perspectives on the paths they follow to conceive their pieces, on a friendship that is now rekindling to showcase their recent works, and to reveal their modus operandi. It is an opportunity to delve into the intimacy of the creative process, to discover sketches, photographs, and vital logs that, for once, intertwine. This time, at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas, MoCA-Americas, in Kendall.
Maeva Peraza

Profiles

Toth Gallery New York Estados Unidos 2019

Alain Pino's new works continue his exploration on the intersection between identity and industrial design. In a hyper-capitalistic age, in which social media frenzy and the commoditization of privacy turn every person into a brand and every action into a public statement, his paintings capture the multi-layered yet silent dynamism of the making of an image. They feature interiors like utopian, bucolic millscapes. His focus on the tools rather than the result stresses his understanding of art as knowledge, deeply rooted in the modern ethos of art as life. The tightly-synchronized and shiny chromed designs shaping recognizable cultural icons underscore humans' ambiguity towards their most precious creation - our selves.

Elvis Fuentes