Riot Material October 21, 2019. Enrique Martinez Celaya’s haunting exhibition at Kohn Gallery is conceived as visual poetry predicated  upon Virgil’s phrase “the tears of things.” As a physicist trained to ask questions that uncover contradictions he uses the poetic implications of Virgil’s phrase to make a quantum leap into the lofty realm of scientific query regarding the way everything is interconnected in a larger continuum where nothing exists in-and-of-itself. His paintings also raise aesthetic questions about the nature of painting itself, as both a construction and a locus for transformative emotional experiences.

A key justification for looking at art – like reading poetry, philosophy and physics – is that the more deeply we study these disciplines the more questions we have about human existence and the world around us. Rarely have I seen this basic existential function of art realized as authentically as Martinez Celay realizes it in this thoughtful exhibition

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https://www.riotmaterial.com/enrique-martinez-celayas-the-tears-of-things/