Bubu Negròn, Abstracción Etnográfica Carnaval

Description

“Abstracción Etnográfica de Carnaval” (Ethnographic Carnival Abstraction) is a series of works made from collected beer cardboard boxes, reinforced and painted with colored dots on a monochrome background. The colored dots technique comes from the Vejigantes masks of Ponce, a city in the south of Puerto Rico. Vejigantes are a folkloric syncretic character, invoking spirits and devils which take different significations depending on the island’s region. Negrón’s gesture of abstracting the traditional technique of the masks is part of the artist’s interest in abstract and conceptual art, as well as et