JUAN MONTOYA LÓPEZ
"The true madness may not be anything other than the very wisdom that, tired of discovering the nakedness of the world, has taken the wise decision of going crazy."
Heinrich Heine.
Talk about Juan Montoya López is talking about creativity and a small group of people who advocate the critical and intellectual independence within the artistic medium generating a transformative nature, breaking in his mind the rule of trade, asserting a contrast between reality and insanity. Also wondered about the originality that takes his work, realizing the everyday, allowing it to be a source of balanced and truthful ideas for artistic activity.
From the point of view of the observer it may appear that anything goes, with this background we must associate the idea of creativity is the same as you're also art history has shown that the madness is the abiding principle of the artist, which he allows to express and satisfy a personal way, making a cause-effect relationship within the meaning crazy, creativity, starting a plastic diversity in different areas of art.
So we realize that Montoya's work involves developing a multiple explanatory, with a lucid definition of thinking and a mastery of the discipline visible plastic, establishing a laboratory period, where test any material at that moment is in your hand, reaching to a level of knowledge within the field of art that involves not only painting, but is open to different areas such as sculpture, literature, performance and video art, leaving a production of an optimal level, in which observed performance and concentration, this allows their art and gain a personal aesthetic.
Montoya, a builder of his own imagination, trapped in a quiet area, the same as that provided him with a double self, which flows in their moments of glory (insanity), setting parameters incomprehensible as art and madness, trapped in a harmonic state leads to a mysterious magic, the same that feeds the spirit and art that is inside his body heavy and lazy, lively intelligence and a ready smile. Building sand castles in the rainy season, is beautiful and sad, Oscar Wilde said, so we can say that in the artistic world of Juan Montoya talks about the day to day involuntary seen from a point of neurosis and repression, serving as expressive power and relief to face the world around him.
Thus, his visual art is linked to the personal, the experience, the same that feeds the brush, leaving a body of knowledge also opens the world in an innocent child without fear, without neglecting their internal conflicts their needs and their torments. All this serves as a muse, who fed his artistic virtue. Juan Montoya shows that its vastness lies in the creativity because their talent happy breed attributes, reflection and anger.
Miguel Ángel Achig Sánchez