August 4th-Beirut N3

Jorge Tacla

August 4th-Beirut N3, 202040.07 x 48.03cmSign in to view price
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oil and cold wax on canvasGinsberg
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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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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 Tacla
August 4th-Beirut N1, 2020
40.07 x 48.03cm
August 4th-Beirut N3
Jorge Tacla
August 4th-Beirut N3, 2020
40.07 x 48.03cm
Injury Report 12
Jorge Tacla
Injury Report 12, 2021
48.26 x 40.64cm
Señal de abandono 22
Jorge Tacla
Señal de abandono 22, 2017
203.2 x 203.2cm
Señal de abandono 23
Jorge Tacla
Señal de abandono 23, 2017
203.2 x 203.2cm
Señal de abandono 25
Jorge Tacla
Señal de abandono 25, 2017
181.6 x 124.5cm
Señal de abandono 28
Jorge Tacla
Señal de abandono 28, 2018
163 x 198cm
Señal de Abandono 36
Jorge Tacla
Señal de Abandono 36, 2019
101.6 x 146.05cm
Señal de Abandono 41
Jorge Tacla
Señal de Abandono 41, 2019
91.44 x 86.36cm
Señal de Abandono 48
Jorge Tacla
Señal de Abandono 48, 2020
40.07 x 48.03cm
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