YOU WILL ONLY UNDERSTAND THE WORLD WHEN YOU GET LOST AND TREMBLE WITH IT

José Vera Matos

YOU WILL ONLY UNDERSTAND THE WORLD WHEN YOU GET LOST AND TREMBLE WITH IT, 202465 x 50cmSign in to view price
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ink on cotton paper80m2 Livia Benavides
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This artwork features a striking visual composition dominated by geometric shapes and patterns. The central focus is a stark white cross-like form that stands out against the surrounding gray, radial patterns. The overall effect is one of visual tension and minimalist elegance, with the artist employing a limited palette and precise linework to create a sense of depth and movement. The artwork's style and technique suggest a modernist or abstract expressionist influence, inviting the viewer to contemplate the relationship between the central motif and the surrounding space. Without further context, the artist's specific intention behind this piece remains open to interpretation. ...

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José Vera Matos
Artist
José Vera Matos
Peruvian

José Vera Matos uses drawing to trace the relationship between language, power, and colonial systems in the particular context of Latin America. Selecting pivotal texts in his research, Matos analytically dissects these works, extracting patterns, motifs, and potential visual possibilities. Once this initial stage is complete, Matos begins the durational process of hand transcribing these texts with fountain pens onto bamboo paper. Switching between different coloured inks, and carving abstracted blocks of text onto his surface, a mixture of fluid gestural markings emerge in conversation with quite angular, geometric designs. Sometimes these arrangements echo figures found in pre-Columbian textiles and pottery, whilst other compositions resemble geometric blocks of Incan architecture. What pulses throughout all of these syncopated explorations is a desire to reveal the relationship between colonial structures and language, a need to unearth the written word as a weighty tool and its role in upholding systems of power. Traversing the fields of post-colonial theory, sociology, and semantics in the lens of Conceptual art and mid 1960s Minimalism, Matos continues to make work which is deeply political at its core. ...

José Vera Matos: Artworks
80m2 Livia Benavides

80M2 Livia Benavides is an art gallery specialised in Peruvian conceptual art. The gallery opened in Lima as a response to a scarce infrastructure for the arts. From then on, the gallery is focused on developing critical discourses on contemporary issues. We are interested in different voices, practices and aesthetics focused on political and social reflection. By promoting the works of established and emerging artists who have influenced the local artistic scene, we intend to introduce new names internationally. The gallery strives to build bridges between the local and international contributing to an interchange that goes beyond borders. 80m2 Livia Benavides advocates for non- conventional exhibitions spaces that transcends the white box experience. With the intend to reach a broader spectrum of the community and to rethink exhibition venues. ...

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