Carnality and mysticism do not pit against each other in Ismael Nery's universe - a Modernist painter and poet of the beginning of the twentieth century. He transcends his anguish choosing himself as the object of his work of art. This attitude is tightly coupled to the metaphor that begins in the Mannerism/Barroque and permeates through Romanticism and Symbolism. Through the union of opposites expressed by androgyny, and the abstraction of time and space emerges a philosophical system called Essentialism, rescuing the transcendence and primordial unity of the human being in resonance with the search for individuality in contemporary age.
Androgyny; Spirituality; Narcissism; Modernism
