The theory of Heaven is a novelty that Platon introduced to philosophy. Inspired by this concept, the artist proposes a series of works where I imagine and recreate possible worlds only existing in ideas and materialized through art as an ideal means to fable and materialize dissimilar visions of a Platonic space.
In his theory, Platon puts perfect ideas in heaven, understand that these ideas are geometric, He makes a scheme where he puts heaven, oblivion, the world, soul, and body, in a dynamic cycle where the body goes to the underworld and the soul returns to heaven, in that heaven of Platonic ideas, there is only perfect ideas, contrary to the earthly world that is imperfect and incomplete, to which we arrive for a forgetting process where we lose the ideal referent of Heaven, from this concept, we adopt the ideal. Platonic, which represents the desire to remember and return to the world of perfection and order.
Viaje redondo, 2021 Framed
Viaje redondo, 2021
From The Series Plato’s Heaven
Graphite on cardboard
Dimensions:
Image size: 100 H x 70 W cm.
Frame size: 102.8 H x 73.6 W x 2.5 D cm.Black wood frame
Bonachea studied at the Escuela Profesional de Artes Oscar Fernandez Morera, in Trinidad, Sancti Spíritus and the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana. He was part of the DUPP and Enema collectives, as well as Tania Bruguera’s Cátedra Arte de Conducta, in Havana. He has had several solo exhibitions in Cuba and Mexico, and he has participated in the Mercosul and Liverpool Biennials. From performance to drawing, his curiosity for revisiting the remote past has made him enter dialogues of historical vision and present condition of reality, giving as a result discursive forms that complement a universe of anachronic new meanings.