Rather than simply illustrating William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Jesús Cisneros offers us a personal, poetic vision of the text, and lets us hear the voice of the character Ariel. Using the multiple possibilities of drawing, he creates a universe where visible and invisible, reality and dream, intermingle. And he reinvents the infinite number of ways to read this timeless work.
Jesús Cisneros was born in Spain in 1969. In addition to commissions and teaching, his research and personal projects have developed into a veritable aesthetic and sensitive laboratory. Nourished by popular and non-Western art as well as 20th-century avant-gardes, his drawings have the power of spontaneity and the intensity of imagination.
