NFT

NeoCrotalic Art is a form of art created by Javier Lopez Pastrana (my father) in 2003. He makes the physical artworks since the 70´s and I make the NFT´s of his artworks helping the spread of the art movement.  We were born in Mexico City.

We think NFT is reshaping artist venues to come to light with the world, so NFTs is a good way of exposure and will help to bring some valuable treasures warehoused in our houses to a share with human race.

NeoCrotalic Mexican Art NFT´s is a project that has different goals

• It is cultural project that educate of Mexican folk based on Mayan and Mesoamerican principles that were wiped with the arrival of Spanish conquerors, but yet they are still visible and being studied. And we are communicating them 

• It is a long-term project that should remind the entire global community that the adoption of new technologies such as blockchain, web 3.0, cryptocurrencies, tokens and others should not occur at the cost of forgetting culture, leaving it behind, but rather as an act of awareness of keep taking it forward with new methods and technologies.

• It is a commercial project based in NFT´s and Original Artwork´s that increase value towards the artist’s name recognition and work towards culture.

• People involved in the fever of collectibles and superficial assets are respected, but they must turn to put a grain of sand in this type of projects that are of human greatness and their legacy.

“I just wonder if with the arrival of the Spanish in America, invaluable technologies were destroyed by imposing new technologies instead of merging. May this not happen to humans again and let us rescue all we can from the past, even in the new lands of digital and ethereal age of the metaverse." Javier López Aguilar June 2022

NeoCrotalic Mexican Art

How the Aesthetics of the NeoCrotalic Art Gave Way to a New Art Movement

Is it art a way to construct – or destruct – a certain mentality or embrace the history of a culture? The answers might vary, but it is important to address one thing: art is a reflection of human emotion. The NeoCrotalic Art Movement formed by Javier Lopez Pastrana has come to embrace the anthropological nature of Art and it could serve to give a new shape to Fine Art and Architectural Spaces.

Turmoil, happiness, disconnection, satire and so many more emotions and sensations have been given shape into something new by lieu of artwork that was inspired by ancestors. Africans, Asians, North and South Americans artists have expressed it using different proportions and materials to address the reality of their cultures and lifestyles. The use of Art is the lovechild of the latter half of the past century where artistry was redefined to convey a new, powerful network of people that were not afraid to speak loud and clear about the pain and pleasure of being human.

A Mexican artist named Javier Lopez Pastrana founded a movement that is meant to retake the rule of the Canamyte Proportions, based on the Mesoamerican Cultures of the Mayan, Aztecs, Olmecs and Tolteca. This movement is new in the sense of it having less than twenty years. Lopez Pastrana named NeoCrotalic-- "Neo” for new and Crotalic from "Crotalus” or rattlesnake in the Latin—his main influence came from the archeologist and journalist José Díaz Bolio, who helped him develop a modern adaptation of the Crotalic Art of the Mayas by using the mayan vertex quad called “canamayte”, which resembles the pattern of the aforementioned rattlesnake.

The reason why this pattern is so relevant is that it can be used to link the past of an entire culture to its present. The proportions used by Lopez Pastrana make us glimpse into the abstract thought process of another time while providing shapes with vivid, evocative lines and patterns that seem to speak to us as we see it.

His body of work is compressed in art pieces created using oil and resin on canvas. The colors he has used are vivid, an explosion of pink, blue and silver hues depict the branches and leaves of a geometrical-balanced tree in “El árbol armónico” (2006), which serves as an unplanned counterpart to an earlier piece named “Chernobyl” after the Russian city where the nuclear disaster occurred, it is a reflection of the catastrophe created by the radioactive clouds that devastated several parts of Europe and caused a quarantine on the city. Although it could be regarded as a critique to art it is also a view into the future, a narrow window where we can glimpse a new wave of questions most of which could have a sustainable answer. In this artwork appears the rests of humans depicted in symbolic representation to the artwork named “La Coyolchauqui” which is an Aztec.