Illán Argüello

Illán Argüello

Architectural dreamscapes blending geometry and symbolic color, posing silent questions about perception and inner space.

Burning Mantis with Black Sun

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Burning Mantis with Black Sun

Óleo on lienzo, 100 x 130 cm

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THE MYSTERY

In this series, Argüello focuses on architectural structures and artificial landscapes that seem suspended in time. The constructions are not inhabited, but they "feel" the presence of the human through their own design. Formal logic —geometry, volume, shadow— becomes a vehicle for exploring the tension between the solid and the void, the present and the latent.

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Illán Argüello's work is based on an artistic exploration where architecture, geometry, and the dreamlike state converge. His plastic universe unfolds almost metaphysical spaces: carefully ordered environments, structures that allude to architectural plans, and plausible artifacts at the edge of the strange. From a technical point of view, Argüello works with a mastery of composition based on geometric axes and a palette that shows a clear symbolic density: each color, each shape, each void or figure seems charged with intention and measure. Architecture—both in its constructive sense and its symbolic dimension—acts as a metaphor for the psyche, for the structural silences underlying our everyday lives. In summary, Argüello's painting not only asks "what do we see?" but "how do we see ourselves?": it proposes that the architecture of the visual refers to the architecture of the interior. His work is a kind of cartography of silence, of structure, and of human susceptibility to space.

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