Pedro Vizcaino Artist Statement
What follows is an English translation of the artist statement. For the original Spanish version please see below.
Taxis in constant motion, using the language of the comic book, pop art, and expressionism…I seek a link between the figurative and the abstract. They are vehicles which transform as in a comic book vignette…They transform and fuse with human or animal elements, or with a building…to create cyborgs, hybrids and to create diverting figures or artifacts, surrealistic in some sense, as if they came out of a dream or a nightmare.
Taxis are a means of escape, of finding an exit from the streets, the streets of the city, from the day to day violence and routines and an often suffocating (or asphyxiating if you prefer) reality…to this end the use of straight lines and rapid, violent strokes of colored pencil…that reaffirm the energy that comes from humanity, that is the soul…the soul of the infant child…the soul is rebellion, anarchic…it likes to play, seeks experiences…
The Taxi assumes certain characteristics and behaviors of humans and in the works appear as antagonistic impulses, deliberately between reason and instinct…sometimes, the Taxi appears to be moving in two, opposite directions, past and future, use of the duality.
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The word “Taxi” appears in the upper section of the work, resembling a yellow cloud more than a lettered sign….trying to lower itself from sky to earth…what is above is below…and the use of numbers on the taxis is an esoteric element in the symbolic drawings…and also is indicative of a society where everything is numbers, even people appear to be not human, but numbers.-