THE MAGICAL LANGUAGE OF THE KNOT

As an artist, he is a total creator, a maker in the fullest sense of the term. Quoting Eielson himself from the catalog "Tecnoquímica 2004 Award": "Poetry is what springs from the encounter between the mind, the hand, the heart, and the materials on which the artist intervenes. It's like a spark enclosed in every matter, even the most wretched and trivial. It's enough to know how to extract it." The current exhibition of Eielson in Lima at La Galería Enlace Arte Contemporáneo in San Isidro, while not strictly a retrospective, provides an overview of the various features and moments of his creation through a selection of around 20 works. It follows a journey through some of his main series, such as the "Infinite Landscapes of the Peruvian Coast," the collages of "The Clothes," the fantastic and legendary "Knots" and "Quipus," the works of "The Leonardo Codices," and the series "Amazonia," among others. The curators of the exhibition are Marina Affanni and Roberto Ascóniga, with Martha Canfield, Director of the Jorge Eielson Study Center, as the associate curator. Eielson always maintained that his pursuit was not a dual one, with a verbal aspect on one side and a visual aspect on the other, but rather a single and unified entity, an indivisible and insoluble continuum. "There are knots That are not knots And knots that are only Knots..." - J. Eielson Roberto Ascóniga