Down the Rabbit Hole with Neon Lights

San Francisco, CA — FFDG is pleased to present Mexico City-based visual artist Favio aka ‘Curiot’ in his second solo show at FFDG entitled “Down the Rabbit Hole with Neon Lights” featuring a new series of colorful and vibrant acrylic paintings on canvas. An opening reception is scheduled for Friday, March 27th (6-9pm). The artist will be present. The show runs through April 18th.

In this multi-layered show, viewers are initially greeted with a visually entertaining journey of a creature that becomes curious of the source of raining souls, a common element in Curiot’s work. Getting as close as possible to the vortex of souls, the creature is sucked in and sent to the strangest land, a virtual consequence to his muddled days in the past. Next, the work draws inspiration from the rapid pace of technology, various social problems, and how our environment can therefore take a hard hit, showing the future as uncertain, almost foggy in a way, where you can see figures and objects popping up without being able to positively identify them. This body of work is driven by the sense of transition we can find ourselves in; half of it shows a slight entanglement with nature while the other half is testing the waters of a virtual realm.

Curiot’s colorful paintings, featuring mythical half-animal half-human figures and scenes, which allude to Mexican traditions (geometric designs, Day of the Dead styles, myths and legends, tribal elements), are rendered in precise detail with a mixture of highly vibrant yet complementary colors. Inspired from Pre-Hispanic cultures, nature and urban contemporaneity, the artist explores the relationship between man and nature.

Favio earned his B.F.A from the Universidad Michoacana de S.N. Hidalgo in 2008. His paintings have been exhibited in diverse solo and group venues including: Cirlcle Culture Gallery, Fecal Face, Thinkspace Gallery, Fifty24MX, BMW Museum, CCBorder, Scope Art Fair, Stroke, among others.