VARIATION/ Paris: PAISAJE PERPENDICULAR, José Luis Landet
OPENING SUNDAY 13th OCTOBER, 15 – 19 H, Paris
I think of my work as the place where there are different ways of operating and assimilating cultural processes traversed by social, political and ideological actions. I am interested in investigating some vestiges or socio-cultural wastes, for example: recovering painted landscapes (oil on canvas, produced between 1940 to 1970), with a certain Romantic or Bucolic look, made by amateur painters. A search for a particular notion of paradise, in order to recreate an apocryphal individual.
These images (paintings) and other symbolic elements such as everyday objects, photographs, letters, postcards, super 8 films, slides, writings, magazines and books are part of the materials with which I work, in a material and conceptual deconstruction.
When I find these objects, they have a thick background composed by memories, time and use. It is important for me to analyse each one of them, take a photographic record, classify and, later on, manipulate them according to the needs of the project in turn.
Usually these actions have to do with filing, cutting, breaking, covering, forging, submerging, fragmenting, simulating, getting them out of the shadows and resignifying them. These are metaphoric and poetic actions.
Public and private
The Utopian Past
The dystopic present
The Universal History
– José Luis Landet
VARIATION is a collaborative project between the galleries Sator and NF/ NIEVES FERNÁNDEZ aimed at increasing the international visibility of the artists from both galleries through the presentation of individual exhibition projects in Paris and Madrid.
Perpendicular Landscape by José Luis Landet is its fifth edition and will take place at the Sator gallery in Romainville, from October 13 to October 26, 2023.
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