Xul solar

A figure as dazzling as he is enigmatic illuminates our summer collection: the unclassifiable Óscar Alejandro Agustín Schultz Solari (1883-1963), later self-proclaimed Xul Solar. Who was this brilliant madman really? Or, rather, who wasn't he? Because, in addition to developing an amazing artistic world, he was also an astrologer, visionary, and happy mystic, inventor of two languages—Panlanguage and Neocriollo—and 12 religions!, an unrepentant cosmopolitan, and an inveterate bibliophile. Anything else? Yes! Also an architect, puppeteer, creator of panchess—an astrological version of the game—and a revolutionary three-row piano that added textures and colors to the keys.

He created an original pictorial work that defies conventions, archaic and avant-garde at the same time, populated by skyscrapers, stairways, towers, flags, and inscriptions, in which men with fish feet or crescent moons appear, cities that fly over other cities and that are Gothic fortresses and dollhouses. His universe is an explosion of fantasy, joy, and good humor, full of small colorful wonders and cabalistic enigmas: through watercolors, tempera, books, and all kinds of objects, ships, sphinxes, Christs, miniatures, pagodas, zodiacs, and mestizo crosses emerge.

A being of overflowing imagination, who reinvented the world daily. And that very personal, free, and uninhibited world is what we wanted to capture in the Maxi necklaces, earrings, and brooches of this new collection. We divided it into brilliant blue, intense yellow, pure red, and mystic black, in accordance with the predominant tones in his oils and watercolors. A palette similar to what a child would probably choose to paint the Universe.

Upon recalling his passing, one of his great friends, Jorge Luis Borges, encouraged the audience: "I invite you all to live together, to coexist, or 'polylive', or 'panlive', as Xul would say, in this world of his visions, of his lines, of the joy, of the purity and of the melody of his colors."