LUIS KERCH
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Curatorial essays, critical writings, and reflections on the work of Luis Kerch.
Curatorial Texts
For me, Luis Kerch's paintings are not mere representations of external landscapes, but direct expressions of the artist's internal emotional state. Each brushstroke is a profound meditation. Luis seems like a philosopher of light, where light itself presents and represents itself in his paintings as the queen of all colors.
The canvases act as containers that narrate his biography, woven with meditative veils of the landscape. His abstractions appear to be attempts to elevate reality to a numinous world, seeking to give language to the ineffable landscape. His works are an extension of his emotions, travels, and perception lenses of this reality.
Luis shows us how he sees the world, poetically and sublimely in love with light. It's as if he inhabits his paintings with genius mastery, leading us to question reality itself, creating a sonata to light.
In the works of Luis Kerch, the landscape blurs away and the image is destroyed to trigger the imagination. All things pictorial are led to their absolute boundary. That is why there is always something beyond what we can see, and experience is overtaken by vertigo.
A reality that we neither see nor can describe, but the existence of which we are able to deduce. Kerch's work exists in this liminal space between perception and memory, between the seen and the felt.
His paintings are not attempts to capture nature, but rather to release it—to let it breathe and transform through color and light into something that transcends mere representation.