Morphology of the meeting
The story of Michael Burton Junior
2018 - 2019
'Morfología del encuentro' tells the story of Michael Burton Junior,
a senior finance executive inspired by the 1980s Wall Street films, who is forced to embark on an initiative in the search, perhaps, for the meaning of his life.
The archetype of the character has managed to touch his professional roof, but, apparently, also his spiritual background.
He believes he has everything, money, power, women, as well as a relentless and corrosive dissatisfaction that is slowly devouring, his whole being.
This is how he has realized that material has failed to cover up that existential rift that he has dragged since his childhood and, before falling into complete madness, he will be willing to dive and accept his shadow to undertake a real, as well as symbolic-spiritual journey, for each of his fears and prejudices.
His companion and confidant, James Schoendorff, will accompany him on this cathartic adventure, crossing a mental north pole laden with icebergs that, perhaps, is none other than his spiritual freezing and the coldness of his reasoning. This journey will be contrasted by archetypal apparitions of the warrior woman (Amazonas, Valkyries, Artemises or Perhaps the present femen), which manifest their fears and desires, the “eros and the tánatos” of the material paradigm, patriarchal-capitalist, which Michael Burton Junior represents, claiming the necessary communion with his “other self” more emotional, feminine and spiritual.
The archetype of the character has managed to touch his professional roof, but, apparently, also his spiritual background.
He believes he has everything, money, power, women, as well as a relentless and corrosive dissatisfaction that is slowly devouring, his whole being.
This is how he has realized that material has failed to cover up that existential rift that he has dragged since his childhood and, before falling into complete madness, he will be willing to dive and accept his shadow to undertake a real, as well as symbolic-spiritual journey, for each of his fears and prejudices.
His companion and confidant, James Schoendorff, will accompany him on this cathartic adventure, crossing a mental north pole laden with icebergs that, perhaps, is none other than his spiritual freezing and the coldness of his reasoning. This journey will be contrasted by archetypal apparitions of the warrior woman (Amazonas, Valkyries, Artemises or Perhaps the present femen), which manifest their fears and desires, the “eros and the tánatos” of the material paradigm, patriarchal-capitalist, which Michael Burton Junior represents, claiming the necessary communion with his “other self” more emotional, feminine and spiritual.
- All
- Drawing
- Exhibitions
- Other media
- Painting
Night Iceberg
M.B.J.’s journey.
Double portrait of M.B.J.
Michael Burton Jr.’s comfort zone.
Aggressive executive
The Wall Street Valkyrie
Cold portrait
Self-parody
Cold landscape
Hotel
Acceptance in the office.
First flashes and fragrances
Frozen beauty
Comfort Zone II
The weight of contradiction
Revolution and love
Testajabata
Essays on an adventure
More is less
Valkyrie about the executive
Interior landscape. Farm and capital
The third question
So far, so close. The home of Michael Burton Jr before the voyage.
Like a revolution
Schoendorff’s speech
Crystallize the promise, promise catharsis I
Anti-ventisca glasses
The more it’s less.
Study of an executive as a frigorrino
Catharsis in the office
Farm and capital
Victorious road
Iceberg thinking
Study for an adventurous head
Little big iceberg
Study for a new Valkyrie
Okay, let’s do it for dignity
Wall Street Valkyrie Fear and Desire
Morphology of the meeting
Dreams of ambition
Looking at the reflection
Comfort Zone
Michael Burton Jr.’s exaggerated potential.
Mental Landscape by Michael Burton Jr
A room with a view
Important superfluous meetings
Angular Iceberg
At the top of the spiritual crack
The constant flight
With a hopeful vision
Two lights and an icy mountain
It was thought by James Schoendorff
The Transvestite
Crystallize the promise on the table
Strength and freedom
You can do it.
Portrait of the Modern Man
So far, so close II
So far, so close
A morning of relentless revelations
Decisive conversation
Michael Burton Junior’s Chair
Frozen Instinct II
James Schoendorff or Whatever it takes. by a friend
He yells at me so much what you are that I don’t hear what you’re saying.
Michael and James in the office
Project the more it is the less
Project the more it is the less
Project building iceberg
Project for the Barjola Museum
THE END IS THE BEGINING
SO FAR SO CLOSE III
Morphology of the meeting
Gallery Exhibition Gema Llamazares (Gijón. 2018)
Illusion
Sooner or later
The Journey II
