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Javier PeláezVapor #12019
2019
About the Item
In Javier Peláez´s recent work executed in Mexico City for this year's exhibition project with
William Turner Gallery there are new formal and discursive premises in the composition of the
images and also lines of continuity with respect to his past explorations. Specifically, the artist
continues to develop the optical complexity of abstract planimetric architectures; retains the
connection with certain Japanese visual elements; supports the idea of the diagram or structure of
floating or weightless forms; and continues to resort to the industrial or high-tech chromatic
scenes that incorporate fluorescence into sober color repertoires.
As for the new premises visible, the first thing that is noticed is an emphasis on the tension
between the secant geometrical planes and the image of the trunk of the tree. The atmosphere in
most of these new paintings is that of a world where the organic is placed in an artificial and
strident scenery (somewhat influenced by “vapor wave” aesthetics) where architectonic planes
strive to configure themselves against broken tree trunks while the rupture of the trunk
emphasizes on the concept of fragility and change as inevitable components of our human
condition.
Conceptually Peláez himself associates the icon of the tree with a process of reference to his
personal history. The tree is related to fatherhood, specifically to the figure of his late father, who
used to be an architect.
The Garden of Eden has been subverted: the tree of life and enlightenment, according to the
ancestral sacred mythologies, appears dry and broken in the visions of Javier Peláez, in a state of
fragmentation and sterility. The dystopian tone of the iconography invoked by the artist speaks,
in a sense, of the crisis of the idea of happiness and raises a saga of the mediatization of reality.
- Creator:Javier Peláez (1976, Mexican)
- Creation Year:2019
- Dimensions:Height: 63 in (160.02 cm)Diameter: 63 in (160.02 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Santa Monica, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU4784756132
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