From March 23rd to April 22nd, 2023, Fortnight Insitute will present βEncounters with Neptune,β the first solo exhibition in the United States of Mexican artist SebastiΓ‘n Hidalgo.
This exhibition revolves around two main concepts: chaos and mandalas. Encounters with Neptune will feature a selection of Hidalgoβs paintings through which Neptune acts as an uncomfortable figure that invites us into the unknown, invisible but present, both in its role as the farthest known planet and as a mythological being. Neptune is a symbol, a deity, a ruler of the seas and their impulses. The set of works in the exhibition imagines internal dialogues and silent encounters with this uncomfortable figure.
With thanks to The Mexican Cultural Institute for their support of this exhibition
SebastiΓ‘n Hidalgo
SebastiΓ‘n Hidalgo (b.1985, Mexico) works and lives in Cholula, Mexico. Hidalgoβs practice has been anchored in a constant exploration that has allowed him to generate a polyvalent body of work while searching for a sensation of expansion and unity through ideas of psychedelia, dream memory and contemplative states of mind. The dynamic materiality of his work bridges together the philosophies and imaginations of anthropology, Archaic art, sci-fi, mysticism, cartoons, Taoism, and Cyber-Aesthetics. Hidalgo studied at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain and Unarte, Puebla, Mexico
Where: Fortnight Institute
When: March 23rd to April 22nd, 2023
Free and open to the public