José Luis Landet (eng)
José Luis Landet
Argentina, 1977
José Luis Landet’s work is conceived as a space where various ways of operating and assimilating cultural processes are produced, shaped by social, political, and ideological actions. His interest lies in the investigation of sociocultural remnants and discards, as can be seen in his recovery of romantic and bucolic oil paintings from the 1940s to 1970s, commonly created by amateur artists—the so-called «Sunday painters.» In this sense, Landet’s work seeks a certain notion of paradise, recreating the apocryphal.
The various materials that make up his works may include these pictorial representations, as well as other symbolic elements such as everyday objects, photographs, letters, postcards, transparencies, writings, magazines, and books, generating both material and conceptual deconstructions.
José Luis Landet’s work reveals not only the materiality of its elements but also their memory, time, and usage. Likewise, each artistic project is imbued with specificities and, therefore, requires a complex creative process, which begins with classification and extends through archiving, cutting, breaking, layering, forging, soaking, fragmenting, and simulating.
In this sense, Landet’s metaphorical-poetic actions are expressed in liminal spaces—between the public and the private, the utopian past and the dystopian present, silence and communication, and even between a universalizing history and gestures aimed at historiographic reframing from a local context.
He has exhibited at institutions such as Fundación PROA, Museo Ex Teresa Arte Actual, FLORA ars+natura, and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, among others.
His work is part of collections such as Jumex, Louisiana Museum, LACMA, Jorge Pérez Collection, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Sayago & Pardon, JoAnn González-Hickey Collection, and Brillembourg Capriles Collection.
José Luis Landet. Paisaje morfina B. 2020. Fragments of oil on canvas, glue, charcoal, colored enamel, black spray, fabric, and latex. 40 x 30 cm each
José Luis Landet. Reverso. 2022. 45 fragments of oil on canvas (1940-1970). 200 x 341 cm
José Luis Landet. La vida en los bosques. 2021. Fragments of oil on canvas and black enamel. 26,5 x 20,5 cm each piece (8 pieces)
José Luis Landet. Estar siendo 8. 2018. Spray on canvas. 100 x 80 cm / 39.37 x 31.50 in
José Luis Landet
Solo Exhibitions
2025
The Affirmation of Chance, W-Galería, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2023
The Vision Behind, Parque de la Memoria, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2022
Materialism of a Discard, NF/NIEVES FERNÁNDEZ, Madrid, Spain
Multitude of Possible States, Walden Galería, Garzón, Uruguay
Processual Archaeology, Arróniz Galería, Mexico City, Mexico
2021
25th Federico Klemm Award, Fundación Klemm, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Blue in Green, Arróniz Galería, Mexico City, Mexico
The Shortest Night, Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante (MACA), Aural Galería & NF/NIEVES FERNÁNDEZ, Madrid and Alicante, Spain
2019
The Manifested Landscape. A Message of Uncertainty, LaCa Projects, Charlotte, USA
Phantasmal Siege, Walden Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
El Local, Atocha Galería, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2018
Being While Becoming. Under a Foreign Flag, NF/NIEVES FERNÁNDEZ, Madrid, Spain
2017
Camote, Walden Galería, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Artificial Paradises, Ex Teresa Arte Actual Museum, INBA, Mexico City, Mexico
2016
DOMA, Arróniz Galería, Mexico City, Mexico
GOMEZ in Honda Tolima, Residency at FLORA ars+natura, Bogotá, Colombia
2014
GOMEZ, Document Art Galería, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Silent Thought, Museum of Graphic Arts (MAG), Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico
2013
Taxonomy of a Landscape, Dot Fiftyone Gallery, Miami, USA
Plausible – Fictional, Document Art Galería, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2012
Recovered Landscape, Arróniz Galería, Mexico City, Mexico
2011
Taxonomy of a Discovery, Museo de Arte Moderno (MAM), Mexico City, Mexico
2010
Frag-mentes (Interpretation System), Revolver Galería, Lima, Peru
Sesera, Dot Fiftyone Gallery, Miami, USA
2009
Reason by Will, Arróniz Galería, Mexico City, Mexico
2007
Shifts in Place, Casa del Lago UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
2006
Fortunate Trash, Claustro de Sor Juana / Celda de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2024
NO PLACE TOUR. CDMX. Rough, Unpolished Stone, Arróniz Galería, Mexico City, Mexico
NO PLACE / Fenestria, Sator Galerie, Paris, France
2023
Artists Against the Bomb, Judd Foundation, New York, USA
Real Fictions, BIENALSUR at CCK, Buenos Aires, Argentina
18 Minutes of Sun, Museo Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2022
26th Federico Klemm Award, Fundación Klemm, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2021
The Shortest Night, MACA, NF/NIEVES FERNÁNDEZ & Aural Galería, Madrid and Alicante, Spain
2019
Lines in Space. Expanded Drawing from Mexico, Argentina and Brazil, Museo de la Cancillería, Mexico City, Mexico
2018
PROA21, Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Throw Confetti. World Cup ’78 Between Celebration and Horror, Parque de la Memoria, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2017
Acquisition Mention, Central Bank Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Collective Memory in Times of Genocide, Paco Urondo Cultural Center FILO-UBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Genius and Figure, CEIBA, Veracruz, Mexico
ProyectosLA. Pacific Standard Time, Arróniz Galería, Los Angeles, USA
Like a Flash, Casa del Bicentenario, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Walk the Distance and Slow Down, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado, USA
Micro-narratives, Fundación Klemm, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2016
Brow, NF/NIEVES FERNÁNDEZ, Madrid, Spain
Evolutionary Journeys, Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires, Argentina
New Projects, 80m2 Galería, Lima, Peru
Oasis, Dixit Arteba, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Illumination & Fire Under Snow, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
2015
Beyond Abstraction, ArtNexus, Bogotá, Colombia
Monochrome Undone. Abstraction in Action, Sayago & Pardon, Los Angeles, USA
My Buenos Aires, Maison Rouge, Paris, France
Amplify. Barquet-Giaconi-Landet, Document Art Galería, Buenos Aires, Argentina
To Be or Not South, Museum of Art of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
Micro Salon No. 5, Galerie L’Inlassable, Paris, France
2014
Differences on White, Casa Galería DF, Mexico City, Mexico
Castillo Abierto, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Revolver Cajamarca, Revolver Galería, Lima, Peru
Surface in Tension. Diagram, curated by Christian Barragán
2013
Abstraction, Arróniz Galería, Mexico City, Mexico
Open Studio 8, Fundación Rozenblum, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Rudimentum, Christinger de Mayo & Arróniz Galería, Zurich, Switzerland
To Be or Not South, Argentine Embassy & CONACULTA INBA, Mexico City, Mexico
Utopias of Illusion, Art Nube (Kiosco) & Dot Fiftyone Gallery, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
Open Studio 7, curated by Florencia Battiti, Fundación Rozenblum, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Building Bridges, Fundación Rozenblum & Nosco Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2012
2do Piso Collective, Baró Galería, São Paulo, Brazil
Open Studio 6, curated by Rodrigo Alonso, Fundación Rozenblum, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Open Studio 5, curated by Sebastián Vidal Mackinson, Fundación Rozenblum, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The Common and the Collective, Arróniz artists at Galería Libertad, Querétaro, Mexico
Discourse of the Non-Representational, Dot Fiftyone Gallery, Miami, USA
2010
Centro de Investigaciones Artísticas (CIA), Buenos Aires, Argentina
2009
20 Years of FONCA, Vasconcelos Library, Mexico City, Mexico
Proyectos, Revolver Galería, Lima, Peru
Parenthesis, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (MACO), Oaxaca, Mexico
2008
Hotel Panamericano Site-Specific Project, Bariloche, Argentina
Creation in Motion – Young Creators 2007/2008, Instituto Cultural de Aguascalientes, Mexico
Páramo II, Arróniz Galería, Mexico City, Mexico
2007
Páramo, Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2006
7 Places, Tacuba 15, Mexico City, Mexico
This is That, Arróniz Galería, Mexico City, Mexico
Blindness – 2do Piso Collective, MACO, Oaxaca, Mexico
2005
Ratonera, San Jerónimo 21, Mexico City, Mexico
For Rent, Isabel la Católica 70, Mexico City, Mexico
Off-Center Panoramic, Ex Teresa Arte Actual Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
Collections
Colección Jumex, Mexico
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
Sayago & Pardon Collection, USA
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (MACO), Mexico
The Brillembourg Capriles Collection, USA / Spain / Venezuela
JoAnn Gonzalez-Hickey Collection, USA
Marc Van Den Henden Collection, Belgium
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), USA
Fundación Calosa, Mexico
Colección Otazu, Spain
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona, USA
Fundación Tres Pinos / MARCO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Arter Collection, Turkey