Adrián Socorro (Matanzas, 1979) returns to exhibit in Mexico. Now it shows, under the title of May the night be light, fifteen paintings and thirteen drawings produced in 2025 that continue to explore one of its most fertile thematic fields: hedonism, sexuality, troubled beings of the night, dramatic characters glimpsed and even sensed; some painted with great rigor and others simply suggested in drawings with nervous and expressive lines.
Adrián, who considers himself related to Joaquín Sorolla, Antonia Eiriz, Fidelio Ponce, Alex Kanevsky and Torn Arne Moen, comments on his aesthetics and discursive strategy:
“I return again and again to the portrait, to the nude, to morbidity, to death from what is dead itself; not in the horrifying fact of dying, but of giving life to what no longer has it; more than talking about death, I am attracted to the idea of provoking life, offering second chances. Sex and morbidity are constant, because I see human beings as thinking sexual animals. Everything has a sexual purpose. Accepting it or not depends on the intensity with which you learn from life. I can summarize what poetry is the one that rules my hand. I seek to amaze myself, to disturb myself when I am relaxed and to relax when I am disturbed. The themes in my paintings are like the bars that I usually visit; I go from one to another as the night progresses full of ‘little nocturnal animals and bar-stomers’.
That: May the night be lightexhibition of paintings and drawings by Adrián Socorro.
Where: Covarrubias Gallery, Ave. Oaxaca 95, Roma Norte, CDMX.
When: Until March 5, between 10:00 am and 5:00 pm, Monday to Saturday.
How much: Free entry.
