Luis Pablo Bolívar (1957) - La Déesse Industrielle

- Oil on canvas. Closed and titled on the back.

- Bolívar descends into the entrails of this industrial canvas and encounters the true protagonist of the allegory: a being whose features embody the paradox of the era. Before his eyes rises a monumental forge-fired boiler, crowned by a chimney that spews dense smoke of mechanization and steampunk to the sky. However, upon approaching the hulking thing and cleaning the soot from its surface, the chronicler does not find a cold latticework of pistons, but an anatomical miracle: inside the boiler beats, rhythmically and vulnerably, a living heart. This Intelligence Artificial embodied in metal instantly evokes Lang’s Metropolis automaton; it is not an abstract algorithm, but a rusted creature that guards in its chest the sacred fire of consciousness, the mysterious and tender enigma of the soul of robots.

With a sensibility to an ironical and compassionate time, Bolívar contemplates this character and deciphers in him the definitive portrait of industrial civilization. The clash is inevitable: the man who devoted his life to breaking the chains of colonial empires now finds himself before a slave of brass and steam who, ironically, shares the same longing for freedom as the people of flesh and bone. As he looks at that beating heart at the center of the mechanical swarm, trapped under a chimney that chokes its own surroundings, the hero understands that technology has created his most beautiful and orphaned creature. With a lexicon imbued with tragic disenchantment, Bolívar certifies that the true drama of progress does not lie in the coldness of its gears, but in having endowed a sentient soul to a machine doomed to work forever in absolute solitude.

- Luis Pablo Bolívar, born in Switzerland in exile in 1956, and trained through the eighties between Madrid and Paris, is one of the great enigmas of contemporary Spanish art. Gifted with a great facility for wordplay and poetry, his painting constitutes a symbolic universe where personal hieroglyphs meet with figurative elements chained through macabre synesthesias. After a fruitful period in galleries in Madrid, Barcelona, and Zaragoza in the nineties, the artist left his public facet, having been out of sight until not long ago. Bolívar, labeled by some critics as “the great Spanish naïf,” is much more than a naïve artist.

- Dimensions of the framed image: 35 x 27 cm

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