Enrique Oroz's paintings reflect a violent yet fruitful reassessment of the symbols of art history and pop culture.

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Born in Ciudad Obregon Mexico, from a very young age moved to Guadalajara. Oroz is obsessed with the fundamentals of eroticism and religion, making unrestrained vitality and the mystery of death, the predominant themes of his work.

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In regards to his interest in religious art, the artist has expressed: “What I do is to reinvent this type of painting with a base in history and the present time by making incursions into an exhausted pictorial world and generating a new language, [...] I try to create a possible painting, in constant dialogue with reality, and in the meantime shake off the dust of the spectator’s eye in a city like Guadalajara, where it is customary to observe art and painting in an excessively passive manner".

 

Predominantly self-taught, Enrique Oroz is a very free painter whose images are strongly reminiscent of the great masters as well as challenging insertions of popular culture icons. As Rubén Bonet points out: "Atmospheres that refer to "Goya's Esperpento" combined with a low-budget Warhol and nods to Pollock's neo-expressionism". The exaltation of alcoholism as a way of life is notorious in his works and in the way the artist sees the world, but this does not alter the enormous control he exercises over his executions.

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