ἐπιφανίας (Epifanías): Julio Galindo

The Epiphany is the event in which the gods take on a human presence and reveal themselves. Based on this idea, Julio Galindo (Llerena, Badajoz, 1988) reinterprets several myths from the classical world. Using his personal iconography, where tradition and contemporaneity converge, this exhibition allows goddesses such as Athena and

heroes such as Perseus to transcend their materiality in ceramics and come to life.

 

His recognisable artistic language brings together the sacred, the spiritual, the symbolic, and the everyday. His sculptures, with an almost pictorial quality, aim to sacralize the everyday and, in doing so, question what deserves to be observed or venerated. In this way, he manages to generate a personal mythology and iconography of his own, where the ritual coexists with the instinctive and the ceremonial with the wild, generating a poetic tension that oscillates between the intimate and the universal.

 

Galindo studied Fine Arts at the University of Seville, where he specialized in Painting and Engraving. Since his first contact with ceramics in Florence, his sculptures have been exhibited in institutions such as CEART Fuenlabrada, Madrid; Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence; Centro Cultural La Carolina, Jaén; and Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid, among others. Julio Galindo will soon present his solo exhibition at the Santa Catalina Cultural Center in Badajoz.