August 4th-Beirut N3

Jorge Tacla

August 4th-Beirut N3, 202040.07 x 48.03cmPrice on Request
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oil and cold wax on canvasGinsberg
Description
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This abstract painting depicts a shadowy, urban landscape in muted, monochromatic tones of blue and gray. The composition features a sense of depth and movement, with blurred, gestural brushstrokes creating a hazy, atmospheric effect. The overall style appears to be expressionistic, conveying a sense of darkness, density, and disorientation within the urban environment. While the subject matter is not immediately recognizable, the artwork seems to reflect the artist's subjective experience and emotional response to the modern city. The historical context or the artist's intention behind this piece is not specified, but the painting's somber and introspective mood suggests a commentary on the alienation and complexity of urban life. ...

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August 4th-Beirut N1
Artist
Jorge Tacla
B.1958, Chilean

Jorge Tacla primarily works with painting, drafting scenes which depict the aftermath of both man-made and natural catastrophes. Subjects have included the 2020 Beirut explosion and the Black Lives Matter protests. He also often draws on his experience of coming of age in Chile during the dictatorship, where violence was an everyday occurrence. Seeking to unravel the relationship between aggressors and their victims, Tacla hazily applies oils to canvas to represent the ways memory intersects with traumatic experiences. Always slightly out of focus, buildings or figures appear to shudder, visibly unsettled by the weight of what has taken place. Tacla often leaves sections of original sketches on his canvases unpainted, revealing the painting’s ‘skin’ as he puts it, gesturing towards the fragility of our own bodies and minds in the fallout of disasters. Rejecting readings of his work as political, Tacla states “the world is in many ways collapsing due to the ambitions of politics”. In response to this, Taccla empathetically digests the psychological impact of societal and political points of rupture, helping us better understand the damage humanity too readily unleashes upon itself. ...

Jorge Tacla: Artworks
August 4th-Beirut N1
Jorge TaclaAugust 4th-Beirut N1, 2020Price on Request
August 4th-Beirut N3
Jorge TaclaAugust 4th-Beirut N3, 2020Price on Request
Injury Report 12
Jorge TaclaInjury Report 12, 2021Price on Request
Señal de abandono 22
Jorge TaclaSeñal de abandono 22, 2017Price on Request
Señal de abandono 23
Jorge TaclaSeñal de abandono 23, 2017Price on Request
Señal de abandono 25
Jorge TaclaSeñal de abandono 25, 2017Price on Request
Señal de abandono 28
Jorge TaclaSeñal de abandono 28, 2018Price on Request
Señal de Abandono 36
Jorge TaclaSeñal de Abandono 36, 2019Price on Request
Señal de Abandono 41
Jorge TaclaSeñal de Abandono 41, 2019Price on Request
Señal de Abandono 48
Jorge TaclaSeñal de Abandono 48, 2020Price on Request
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