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Ventura PerezStatue of Liberty painted on a red background with architectural framework, surr2023
2023
$1,617.70
£1,200.52
€1,350
CA$2,229.27
A$2,453.29
CHF 1,286.48
MX$29,772.94
NOK 16,080.74
SEK 15,224
DKK 10,279.99
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Ventura A. Pérez (1992) is one of the most seductive artists on the contemporary Spanish scene. After earning a doctorate in contemporary art from the University of Vigo, he moved to Bilbao and has now gone to New York, where he has produced this series of oil paintings on board. The critic and collector Theodore Tenembaum said of him: “What I find fascinating about Ventura is how he manages to elevate the tender and subtle to what I can only define as ‘a state of autonomous elegance’.” Although we think that Mr. Tenembaum’s words smack of a bombastic intellectual, there is no doubt that we agree with Popper in his fascination. We believe, however, that behind Ventura’s tenderness and elegance lies the incendiary spirit of a demanding author full of desire.
The dimensions of the work are 20,5 x 25,5 cm. The technique of the work is oil on board, with a wooden frame. Painted by the artist in New York in the year 2024, in this series the most characteristic buildings and constructions of the big city acquire almost human emotions and feelings.
The Chrysler Building as the Empire State's lover. Both of them asleep on the bed of paradoxical scale, all this if we consider that these skyscrapers are over 300 meters high. A third tower, the Rockefeller Center, bursts into the lovers' room and points a beam of light at the bed where the other buildings lie. This is what I can describe in "Flagrant Délit" (1975) by Madelon Vriesendorp and, nevertheless, the artist Ventura Perez does not quite understand what it can mean. Despite this, he takes this work as a starting point for both his doctoral thesis in Visual Arts and for this series of paintings, because, although he does not know what it can refer to, it seems to him a very attractive and curious image that he wants to know more about.
Starting from "Flagrant Délit" both to research and to paint leads the artist to understand painting as the practice nourished by the academic work of the doctorate, which is the same thing, he considers the long doctoral thesis of more than five years of research as a good excuse to paint what he is passionate about. He had doubts about how relevant a thesis of this category can be, where he stopped to analyze the architecture of Manhattan as a frustrated utopia or programmatic architecture as a current that approaches the plastic arts, so recycling the theoretical content of the thesis in a series of works whose discursive thread focuses on a love disappointment seemed like an interesting challenge.
He has been painting this series since 2023, with it he rescues and discards images, texts and concepts that he developed in the research, adapting it to this kind of soap opera among emblematic buildings painted. However, what motivates him most to continue painting is not so much the search for the usefulness of a thesis, but the most sentimental and psychological part of painting. It is about thinking about what happens after that infidelity in "Flagrant délit" with everything that the image can mean. This story of heartbreak between buildings leads us to understand architecture not only as "space where life happens" (Aldo Rossi), but as another protagonist subject in itself. In the same way, the touches of humor, drama and theatricality that are seen as necessary accessories of painting or comics are difficult to find in the academy.
Continuing the star of the painter Vriesendorp, wife of the famous architect Rem Koolhaas, in this selection of paintings we will see architectural prosopopeia, equally languid, twisted, either wandering or thinking, or crying or repenting, or angry and resentful, or nostalgic, with their nostalgic metaphors and allegories, bringing everything learned in a doctorate closer to what seems like a cheap story of love disappointment.
- Creator:Ventura Perez (1992, Spanish)
- Creation Year:2023
- Dimensions:Height: 8.08 in (20.5 cm)Width: 10.04 in (25.5 cm)Depth: 1.19 in (3 cm)
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- Framing:Framing Options Available
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- Gallery Location:Carballo, ES
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2117216207242
Ventura works with a nostalgic figuration, where pigment is used as an instrument to construct parallel narratives. In his case, painting not only represents, but gives life to the image. His work evokes a fictional universe in which architecture comes alive, approaching the image as a generator of narratives throughout art history. He engages with the visual poetics of Urbano Lugrís and focuses on the always dreamlike irony of buildings like the skyscraper, discussed by Madelon Vriesendorp in "Flagrant Délit," while analyzing how architectures acquire meanings and dimensions over time. The pictorial surface in Ventura's work is a testing ground where the imaginary is disrupted and transformed into reality.
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