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These images stem from Luis Molina-Pantin’s interest in the cultural phenomena linked to architectural works. The mixed condition of an aesthetic, quite peculiar at present, is expressed in these constructions -houses, condominiums, mansions, corporate buildings or commercial spaces. Far from the formal purity of the original styles, these buildings and “monuments”, erected between the 1980’s and 1990’s, show an adulterated civic variation –born under the aegis of the golden decade of drug trafficking in Colombia- that upsets the tradition of their architecture and enthralled followers attracted by the symbol of a new social power. In the bizarre and elaborate creations of Parque Duque, resulting from the most intricate military megalomania -exemplified in the live size replica of a half-breed Taj Majal- as well as in the opulent residential buildings. Swiss pine trees and Doric columns cohabit in an implicit mannerism, in which a now picturesque lyricism dominates and expresses itself in a new visual tropicalia.
R.A.
