Collection: Eloy Tarcisio

His painting, apart from obvious Mexican concepts, reflects the cultural and historical idiosyncrasies of Mexico. For Eloy the technique will always be inseparable from the subject. That is to say, the concept of the work will dictate the medium for its realization. For example, in the execution of an ephemeral work he will use organic materials such as the fruit of the cactus and flowers. His idea is to express, in the use of such materials, an image of his subject profoundly more "real" than mere painting could achieve.

One could say the underlying motives in the work of Eloy Tarcisio are to move into the past, to grasp our traditions, our myths and legends and to incorporate them in the present. Tarcisio is a visual artist who believes in the symbolic significance of such materials as corn, cactus, maguey, nopal and the fruit of the cactus; an uncommon iconography nonetheless unequivocally contemporary.