APOLOGÍA DEL ÉXTASIS

REFLECTION ON THE COMMUNITY OF THE 12 (The Last Supper):

The twelve saw him break a loaf of bread and give a piece to each of them. This is my body, he is said to have said, but it would not be true except as yuta for ecstasy. Then he gave them wine to drink, assuring them it was his own blood.

Jesus is, from then on, the path toward eating and drinking. And these are symbols of personal experiences and, above all, communal ones. White chicken meat associated with fish for banquets, therefore fish in the saliva of the twelve at the unifying supper, where the divine dissolved its self in a renunciation of conquest.

A supper where the shaman prepared the hallucinogenic brew, so that the 24 eyes of the wise crows might look through his wound, breaking the classical icon of the supper into pieces and licking it as the image of good cooking.

Víctor Mira

MOODS:

I am Marilyn Monroe confined in art, as she is in the spiritual benevolence of her flesh. Memory that burns painfully, tearing images from the trauma that made the artist a criminal who, in solitude, bears witness in the nude.

I am Marilyn Monroe, a liberated mirror that in the solitude of the Quinta del Sordo colors the black paintings with her mascara, her blush, and her lipstick.

A mirror free of distortions where the metaphysics of abandoned flesh is revealed, like a stripped voice that emerges as artistic perfection, a danger of death.

A loving gaze that bears witness in the nude. Artist without a safety net. Artist without a trench. Art that survives in the aura of the artist.

Unattainable images that, as Porfino states, are generated in the mind from water, contradicting the idea that the artist’s nature is epileptic in foundation.

Perfume of the soul arising from paintings that, as Beethoven would have said to Schindler about himself, have been boiled, stewed, and roasted.

Víctor Mira

BINOCULAR IMAGES:

These paintings are the result of a vision consisting of a simultaneous convergence of two visual axes, which, through a cerebral psychic act, fuse the two peripheral images into a unifying synthesis.

Light and shadow that we are, sustained in the constancy of everyday living.

Víctor Mira

Munich, 2002