Art enthusiasts at lakeside have until the end of February to catch the work of one of Guadalajara’s most accomplished visual artists and designers.
Some 30 works – paintings and bronze sculptures – by Lewis Kant have been on show since mid November at Galeria D’Paola in Ajijic. Created between 2002 and 2011, they represent only a fraction of this prolific artist’s body of work – he also creates innovative jewelry, installations and curated an exhibit based around the life of Anne Frank at the Zapopan Art Museum in 2004.
“I see art in everything and all the time,” says Kant, who took home the top prize in a national sculpture competition in his native Argentina at the age of 15.
Born into a Polish-Jewish family with a long history in the precious stones and metals business, Kant’s constant desire to innovate and create made him “black sheep” of the family,” he admits.
His paintings fall into the category of “figurative abstract expressionism,” which is different to pure abstraction, he says, because the “spectator can always find something in the work.
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