Ever since man started giving tangible forms to his ideas female figure got a significant role to play. Whether man wanted to offer his obeisance to the fertility aspect either of nature or of man; or the creative faculty personified, a female figure has always been an universal symbol of motherhood. Female figure whether nude or clothed has also been the representation of sensuous erotic, grotesque, repulsive feelings. It is also associated with the destructive aspect as witch and femme – fatale, depending upon the artists experience, associations, upbringing, ideology in which he believes; which consciously or unconsciously determine the artistic expression.
Along with realization that the union of the male and female leads to a new creation, the universally present masculine element also started playing a significant role in the expression of majority of the artist’s works. The creation of a being is the most curious ans fascinating phenomena man has ever known. The union and juxtaposition of the opposites not only in human but also in nature as day and night; darkness and light; good and bad; Goa and demon; Fire and water, heat and cold; negative and positive, earth and sky have always fascinated the artists and the philosophers equally. Throughout the ages this has been an obsession for the artists whether represented symbolically or allegorically or simply in the form of the obvious.
Though eroticism has been a very common subject being painted by artists, it has been expressed with innumerable nuances which differ in each artists work according to his or her individual experience.
Thematically eroticism as a subject did not elude Querozito. In fact he has been preoccupied with this theme since quite some time. His present show of drawings is the expression of subtle, sober, compassionate, soothing romantic shades of eroticism. His eroticism is not violent, disgusting, repulsive even when he uses the metamorphic forms like the bull ( the muscular, tuff, strong virile torso gets transformed into soft undulating phallic form ending into a tail ) and a fish with an open mouth rushing ahead, giving dual meaning to the form). Although this particular metamorphic form of a bull represents the inner beastly nature of man, yet the beast has lost its beastly nature and acquired sanguine human qualities. It is the union and juxtaposition of man and beast both at the physical and mental level. This drawing of the union of the male and female is interestingly brought about with a contrast of black and white. The form of coloured exotic drapery which has crept in a few of his works complementing the nude figure alludes to similar role of opposites, covering and revealing.
The voluptuous forms of the female figures get animated due to the direction of flow of the sinuous lines. These lines at the same time tend to create volume giving the forms a sculpturesque sense. Querozito’s affinity for the three dimensional forms is revealed through these drawings. One of his drawings in red pencil, a headless female torso, resembles a sculpture. Once again in this drawing one can see how he brings together two opposites ways of treating the volume- the torso a blown body in subtle shades of red and the heavy voluptuous thighs in black forceful undulating lines which appear as though unable to resist the gravitational pull.
Querozito has been working with themes such as ‘pseudo drama’, ‘pseudo mind’, ‘analysis of the pseudo mind’, as though in an attempt to unveil mans pseudo nature, his perennial struggle to hide the darker side of the personality. These concepts seem to be obtrusively continued in these series of drawings suggested through the headless figures. The inner conflict of good and bad is expressed in black and white and the headless figures also represent the loss of ‘identity’. The headless figures assume the level of universalization of emotions as there are no faces which serve to cast racial discriminations. The images help in triggering the viewers fantasy. He does not define anything, neither space nor time, but taps the viewer’s creative imagination and leaves them free. The viewer is at a greater freedom in enjoying the work of art.