Francisco Pereira: BIPEDOS: Mirrors of the Psyche

February 03 - March 30,2024

From Redbud Arts Center: "Redbud Arts Center is thrilled to invite you to the opening reception on Saturday, February 3, 2024 of Francisco Pereira's exhibit titled "BIPEDOS: Mirrors of the Psyche" in our East Gallery.

Francisco Pereira, born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1959, is a contemporary sculptor and architect. Renowned for his imaginative sculptures in bronze, he explores themes of psychological evolution. One of his notable series is the Bípedos, a collection of surreal creatures undergoing timeless transformation, seamlessly transitioning from animal to human and from quadrupeds to bipeds. Pereira emphasizes the intentional and methodical nature of his artistic process, asserting that every work of art emerges from a deliberate and thoughtful creative journey. He graduated with a degree in architecture from the Venezuelan Central University in 1983 and embarked on his artistic career, drawing inspiration from extensive readings, sketches, life experiences, and soulful reflections to cultivate the unconscious aspects of his creative expressions.

Artist Statement:

"Every work has a creative process for its conception, nothing comes at random or is given freely by the muses. The process for the maturation of ideas is long, full of readings, sketches, work and experiences that feed the blooms of the unconscious.

My goal as a sculptor is to achieve a representation, a symbolic system to explain a particular reality of the human being. This exercise, this change of body, this journey to the archaic stage of humanity represents a deep reflection on the human being in its inner and outer complexity. It implies, then, to problematize the subject simultaneously with his psychic and cosmological environment, permanent in the creative act: to offer a mediation between the being and his experience in the world, the existence of a poetics related to the unconscious.""

Reception: February 03, 2024 | 6-9 pm

Redbud Arts Center 303 East 11th Street
Houston, TX 77008
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