San Luís Potosí, México, 1976. Lives and works in Mexico City.

At the end of the nineties, José Leon Cerrillo centered his attention in the making of a body of work formed by paintings whose subject matter aimed to dramatic, glamorous, and at times, decadent references. Catastrophic phrases built upon personal thoughts and experiences, accompanied the images that were inspired on the mass media world creating a link with comic strips.

Cerrillo's interests later on focused on painting as "object" and the structures employed in reading such "objects" within a determined field. While literalizing the social character of painting, Cerrillo sabotages modernist utopian notions of the autonomous object.


Futuro anterior, OMR, 2007