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Burricus

The Burricus series, or "The Donkey's Artiseptic", is a visual fable of everyday life, in which donkeys take center stage as "mirrors" of a gregarious, wounded humanity in search of meaning. Inspired by herd behavior, the series portrays these animals in urban scenes – among cars, avenues, buildings, and shop windows – through free, disoriented lines, like those of a child, thus exploring the simplicity of the primary perception. The antiseptics on the paintings are memories of falls, injuries, and pain from childhood, and also a metaphor for a society in its utopia of healing and redemption. Mixed with crayons, graphite, colored pencils, and disjointed scribbles, these pharmacy materials create symbolic and aesthetic layers that oscillate amidst the chaotic landscape. Burricus is, therefore, a sensorial and poetic experience, a prism through which the donkey – persistent, social, and obedient – gives us back the lost gaze of the child between the logic of progress and the most primitive instincts.

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