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Enoc Perez

febbraio 1, 2015 — Immagine — Lascia un commento
Enoc Perez

Enoc Perez

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Enoc Perez was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1967. He currently lives and works in New York. Known primarily for his multi-layered paintings of modernist buildings, throughout his twenty year career the artist has nevertheless engaged with a variety of subjects that appeal to him from voluptuous nudes to still lives of Don Q rum bottles.

Enoc Perez’s new photo collages engage with social media, appropriation, and the artist’s consistent and inventive search for new forms. Sourcing images from the internet of minimally dressed or nude women, from amateur selfies to more professional photos, Perez adds hand painted and cut collaged forms to both obscure and enhance the picture.

The cutout shapes function as censor’s marks – thwarting our ability to see the original image in its entirety while making it all the more attention-grabbing and voyeuristic. At the same time the collaged bits make it into a happy game, playful colors and forms replacing a need for more visual information and reminding the audience of the artist’s role in directing and delivering fresh ways of seeing.

Enoc Perez’s work belongs to the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Corcoran Art Gallery, and the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, among other significant institutions throughout the United States. The first complete monograph on his work was published by Assouline in 2013.

Unica Zürn

gennaio 17, 2015 — Lascia un commento
Unica Zürn Carte de voeux originale de Unica Zurn a Hans Beller, composée d’un morceaou dr soie framboise, bordée d’un découpage orné à l’encre par Unica Zurn dun collage de papier d’alluminium portant la date 1954 et figurant un coeur.

Unica Zürn
Carte de voeux originale de Unica Zurn a Hans Beller, composée d’un morceaou dr soie framboise, bordée d’un découpage orné à l’encre par Unica Zurn dun collage de papier d’alluminium portant la date 1954 et figurant un coeur.

Manolo Millares. Cuadro 50, 1959

ottobre 21, 2014 — Lascia un commento
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Manolo Millares, 1959

Manolo Millares, 1959

http://artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/32102
“I cannot be satisfied until I speak with angels
I require to behold the eye of god
to cast my own being into the cosmos as bait for miracles
to breathe air and spew visions
to unlock that door which stands already open and enter into the presence
of that which I cannot imagine
I require answers for which I have not yet learned the questions

I demand the access of enlightenment, the permutation into the miraculous
the presence of the unendurable light

perhaps in the same way that caterpillars demand their lepidoptera wings
or tadpoles demand their froghood
or the child of man demands his exit
from the safe warm womb”
— Lenore Kandel, “Age of Consent”