Mario Auad, after completing his studies at the National School of Fine Arts of Peru, specializing in painting, graduated in Art from the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences at the Universidad Mayor de San Marcos. His pictorial subjects range from en plein air to images of urban daily life. His painting celebrates the beauty of everyday life and the wonder of expanded time.
His works depict spaces inhabited by repetition and quiet familiarity, where minimal, shared, sometimes invisible gestures take place. But it is precisely in what is common — in the everyday, the ephemeral, the fleeting — that a form of profound poetry can be hidden. As Charles Baudelaire wrote in his praise of the “painter of modern life,” beauty manifests itself not only in the eternal but in the flowing present, in reality as it is, captured with an attentive and engaged gaze.
Auad chooses to pause on scenes we often overlook, to contemplate what we think we already know. The images don’t tell of the exceptional, but invite us to see – and perhaps feel – the hidden meaning in the ordinary.
These snapshots of life, often in the typical format of social media posts, reveal a sense of humanity and an unexpected poetry, inviting us to reflect on the ordinary. In an era saturated with fleeting images, Auad compels us to slow down and grasp the depth of what appears ‘common,’ as if this act offered us a new opportunity to linger over what we see. In a time that tends to celebrate the unprecedented and the sensational, Mario Auad proposes a form of silent attention.
A painting that doesn’t shout, but observes. That restores density to the everyday, and dignity to the common.
