Quantum Space: ¿HOW TO PORTRAY A LIFE? ¿HOW TO CAPTURE SPACE-TIME ON CANVAS?

Silvio Moscoso

Velázquez, with Las Meninas, was the first to fracture the mirror of painting, opening the door to a metaphysical space in Western art.

In Las Meninas, painting becomes self-aware. The artist includes himself within the canvas, blurring the line between creator and creation, viewer and spectacle. It is, perhaps, the first work that does not seek merely to show, but to question:

¿Who is looking at whom?

This conceptual break opened the door to everything that, centuries later, we would call modern art. From Impressionism, which deconstructs light, to Cubism, which fragments form, and finally to Abstract Expressionism, which completely abandons the figure.

Each subsequent movement merely widened the fissure that Velázquez had opened on the canvas. Painting ceased to be a window onto the world and became a field of forces—a space where time, space, perception, and emotion converge.

And it is there, centuries later, that Moscoso intervenes.

His work does not aim to piece together Velazquez's tractured mirror, but to transform that visual device into a quantum field of observation.

Whereas metaphysical and conceptual art focused on questioning the nature of reality through ideas, Moscoso shifts the emphasis to a realm where perceptual experience itself becomes the true experiment.

In his canvases, the image is not a stable object but a state of superposition-defined and dissolved according to the observer, as if the painting exists simultaneously across multiple possibilities.

The "Quantum Space Series" is not merely an artistic endeavor; it is an exploration of existence itself and an

ovation to freedom.

Luis Moscoso tries to portray the universe as a tangled sea where shapes lengthen and deform trying to capture those brief and at the same time infinite flashes of matter over the appens and where everything for an instant is possible.

Thus, the complexity no longer resides solely in the structure of the work, but in the interaction between it and the consciousness that beholds it, generating a paradox:

The more intuitive the act of contemplation seems, the deeper and more sophisticated is the web of relations that sustains it much like quantum mechanics, where simplicity conceals infinite complexity.

There is no anecdote here, no concrete scene. What exists is the human condition in its purest form: animal intuition, prehistoric memory, faith in the invisible.

Moscoso understandsand herein lies the paradox-that life is not meant to be understood. It is meant to be experienced, just like this very series:

an encrypted code that cannot be deciphered by the mind. but by the skin the pulse, and the inner scream that we all carry within.

Perhaps these abstract lines don't capture all of humanity, but they do capture Luis Moscoso. Not like a photographer freezing specific moments, but as someone who fully immerses himself in the present more instinct than intellect, yet wise enough to know that the most essential truths lie beyond the reach of the five

senses.