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PALOMA PELAEZ Caprichos (Nabokov and burning)
01/01/2010
The works consist of interventions made by the artist painting on manipulated digital prints and drawings drawn from nineteenth-century French illustrator, JJ Grandville (1803-1847). His real name was Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard, now little known, but in due time an important figure and one of the forerunners of the illustrations of Lewis Carroll. The Surrealists saw in him an inspiring role model, thanks to the fantastic and ironic illustrations, and by irreverence towards traditional cultural values which boasts in his works, thus rescuing it from oblivion in which he fell from his death.
In the words of the artist these works, which stem from his admiration for the work of the illustrator of exquisite imagination, are designed as an "incest", ie a "perverse relationship" between them, and by manipulation of the texts that appear in the original works, as the interventions made on them with paint, varnish, graphite ... etc. shows us a new reading returned to the contemporary, not without an undercurrent of some assertive approaches the world of women.
The independence of the different languages that overlap and interact lead to a decontextualized image that gets in its origin, however, indulge in a new version, full of tension and emotional climate.
The title of "Caprichos" obviously pays homage to Goya's masterly series where through irony and download your imagination and critical reflection on the cynicism and falsehood of their contemporaries and so stimulating and Nabokov starting point that resulted reading of his work on this project.
Paloma Peláez is an artist with a long career. Graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid and a PhD from the same university, has had numerous exhibitions in prominent art galleries in Spain, USA and the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires or the prestigious Whitechapel Art Gallery in London.
Throughout her career has obtained important grants and institutional support: Fellowship of the Academy of Spain in Rome, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, Banesto Cultural Foundation, Hispanic-American Joint Committee and supported by the Ministry of Education and Culture outreach programs for Spanish Art (Exhibition at the David Beitzel Gallery, New York).
www.magdabellotti.com
In the words of the artist these works, which stem from his admiration for the work of the illustrator of exquisite imagination, are designed as an "incest", ie a "perverse relationship" between them, and by manipulation of the texts that appear in the original works, as the interventions made on them with paint, varnish, graphite ... etc. shows us a new reading returned to the contemporary, not without an undercurrent of some assertive approaches the world of women.
The independence of the different languages that overlap and interact lead to a decontextualized image that gets in its origin, however, indulge in a new version, full of tension and emotional climate.
The title of "Caprichos" obviously pays homage to Goya's masterly series where through irony and download your imagination and critical reflection on the cynicism and falsehood of their contemporaries and so stimulating and Nabokov starting point that resulted reading of his work on this project.
Paloma Peláez is an artist with a long career. Graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid and a PhD from the same university, has had numerous exhibitions in prominent art galleries in Spain, USA and the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires or the prestigious Whitechapel Art Gallery in London.
Throughout her career has obtained important grants and institutional support: Fellowship of the Academy of Spain in Rome, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, Banesto Cultural Foundation, Hispanic-American Joint Committee and supported by the Ministry of Education and Culture outreach programs for Spanish Art (Exhibition at the David Beitzel Gallery, New York).
www.magdabellotti.com
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