“The works bring together images belonging to the imagination of a child — ships, tigers, unicorns, dogs, birds — and images with epic overtones — bullfighters, roses, decapitation, sea, ice, landscape. The friction between these references seem to bring forth surprise, nostalgia, visions of an alternative life, and the difficulty of knowing the difference between the recalled and the real.”

– Enrique Martínez Celaya describing the works in his upcoming exhibition at L.A. Louver “The Hunt’s Will,” November 17, 2012 - January 5, 2013.

IMAGE: Enrique Martínez Celaya, “The One Who Has Taken Its Place,” 2012, oil and wax on canvas, 78 x 100 in. (198.1 x 254 cm)