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6/3/2002

Pure Pueblo

198 Gallery, London

Venezuelan painter and muralist Carlos Madriz is calling his exhibition of paintings "Pure Pueblo" to 'represent all the good and bad things that make up Latin America': it is 'a "pure" expression of all that is "pueblo", which can mean "town" or "the people, the common people." The exhibition will showcase his new paintings on canvas, as well as a temporary interior mural that he is making for a London Arts-funded education project (see "Education project" section below). He takes as his subject matter what he sees around him in his daily life: ‘houses, markets, the media, people’s traditions, folklore, religion, social habits.’ His cultural background is a rich mixture of African, European and indigenous influences. He creates vibrant and expressive images using a method involving fragmentation and repetition combined with an innate feeling for colour, rhythm and composition.

Mural

The 198 Gallery is pleased to announce that international muralist Madriz, whose workss can be seen in many cities around the world including San Francisco, Los Angeles and London, has created a new mural for the exterior of the 198 Gallery. This replaces the previous mural that graced the east-facing wall of the building for the last five years. The popularity of the last mural was made very clear when local residents voiced their complaints on seeing the wall whitewashed in preparation for the new work. Passers-by stopped to comment on the mural's progress, and we have had many positive comments to date. The completion of the mural will be officially celebrated to coincide with the opening of the exhibition.

Education project

Integral to this exhibition is an education project delivered in partnership with the Photographers' Gallery as part of London Arts's pilot initiative New Audiences: Enabling Diversity Gateway programme. The project takes as its starting point an 'ardhive' of studio portrait photographs by Harry Jacobs featuring Lambeth residents, many of Caribbean and African descent, taken over five decades (1957-1999). Madriz has created an interior mural based on the ideas of students at Stockwell Park Secondary School, after which the participants will make photographic portraits in front of this backdrop in workshops with artist Faisal Abdu'Allah. This interior mural is part of Madriz's exhibition, and the young people's photographs will be exhibited in July in the gallery's Urban Vision education project exhibition, and later during Black History Month in October 2002 at the same time as the Photographers' Gallery exhibition of Harry Jacobs's work.

Image: La Chinita, 2000 - Carlos Madriz

198 Gallery, 198 Railton Road, Herne Hill London SE24 0LU
Opening times: Mon-Fri 11am-5.30pm Sat 12pm-4pm

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