Javier Carricajo
dal 26/6/2012 al 10/8/2012
Segnalato da
26/6/2012
Javier Carricajo
Gachi Prieto Gallery, Buenos Aires
For the elaboration of his images he starts from drawn sketches that he combines with photographs and digital procedures.
Javier Carricajo masters a classical pictorial technique, polished, industrious, with which he evokes Rembrandt or Velazquez´s chiaroscuro and the golden luminosity of the Venetian painters. His knowledge of anatomy – he attended Medical School for some time – allows some of his figures to exude the crude naturalism of Caravaggio.
He uses this repertoire of traditional schools, acclaimed by Art history and public reception, to undertake themes and characters of a manifest contemporaneity. This mechanism gives place to a temporal paradox, cause of an interpretative vacillation that seems to be contrasted to the mimesis of representation itself.
The fact that most of his works are organized in series adds to this naturalism, propitious circumstance to develop linked narratives. However, in some cases he leaves the sequence incomplete, as if it were a movie that has had some of its frames edited, so many as not to be able to consider it an edition failure, and in others, the images don’t have a logical continuum, in which case they can be read as disjunctions or alternatives. The artist lays hold of the "off-screen", widely used in film action scenes of suspense or horror, to which he adds other resources from the television language. For the elaboration of his images he starts from drawn sketches that he combines with photographs and digital procedures.
With this tools Carricajo places his models, though likely to be recognized as familiar, in threatening situations where the inexplicable and the defiant slips through which, linked to the sensual treatment of the pictorial material, confers significant thickness to his works, at the time it gives them an almost morbid attractiveness.
Extract from Adriana Lauría`s text, "Randon rosarino", Arte de Santa Fe, Buenos Aires, Fundación YPF, 2011, p. 73
Opening: 27 June 2012 at 7pm
Gachi Prieto Gallery
Uriarte 1976 - Buenos Aires
Monday-Friday 1pm - 8pm
Saturday 12-6pm