FARSIDE GALLERY PRESENTS
Néstor
Arenas: Paisajes Transformer
Exhibition
of Works by Néstor Arenas
On
View November 29, 2014 through January 8, 2015
Opening
Reception: Saturday, November 29
7
to 9 p.m.
Néstor Arenas:
Paisajes Transformer, curated by art critic and independent curator Dennys
Matos, is an exhibition displaying the latest paintings and drawings by this
important neo-figurative Cuban artist, based in the United States.
Néstor Arenas was born in Holguín, Cuba, in 1968. He graduated from the Instituto Superior de
Arte (ISA) de La Habana in 1990 with a degree in painting. In the early 90's he settled in Spain and, after a series of personal projects, he developed a neo-figurative
poetic marked by the
appropriation of different styles of contemporary art history, from Russian constructivism neo-Dadaism, Pop Art to neo expressionism. Adopting
a downright parodic attitude, Arenas cannibalizes the symbolic capitals of
these styles as if they were a sort of
files or sources
to be manipulated or juxtaposition
to shape a particular interpretation of
poetic neo-figurative. From the point of view of discourse, the notion of landscapes take on crucial relevance in those years. Through this notion, on the one hand, he addresses
the complexity of development between
history and representation, between
truth and ideology of the ways
they are interpreted. The exhibitions "Paisajes y Fragmentos" (1998)
Galería de Arte Lausin & Blasco in Zaragoza, Spain and "Pinturas"
(1996) Galería Colón XVI in Bilbao, Spain are emblematic examples of this
proposal.
In 2001, Néstor Arenas settles down in Miami
where his poetic neo-figurative
acquires a more iconographic character
and, in addition to painting, gives way
to photography, video and sculpture art. The combination of these
new expression formats are evident in exhibitions such as Legopainting (2010) Lyle O'Reitzel Gallery in Miami, FL and Solo Show (2008) ISM Gallery also in
Miami, FL. In
them he essentially maintains the notion of landscapes, but they begin to shift
toward a contrast between the worlds of life generated by the two grand
narratives produced in the development of modernity: Capitalism and Communism.
In Néstor Arenas: Paisajes Transformers the artist
investigates the iconographic nature of the languages of contemporary art,
while trying to imagine a socio-cultural future in a globalized world. From the material and spiritual cultures
produced by these narratives, he creates an imaginarium to ponder about utopian
visions where images that make social, cultural and artistic references to what
was the communist utopian project as well as those derived from the mass
culture of triumphant postindustrial capitalism coexist. In these paintings and drawings with a strong
iconographic character, created between 2009 and 2013, Arenas builds a world
that invites reflection about imaginary spaces in which both iconographies
devise unpublished historical narratives.
This exhibition will be accompanied by a full color
catalogue with an essay by Dennys Matos.
For more information visit the artist's website: www.nestorarenas.com.
The
opening night reception for Néstor
Arenas: Paisajes Transformer is Saturday,
November 29th,
7 – 9 pm and is free and open to the public. The exhibition will
be on view from November 29, 2014 through January 8, 2015 weekdays from 11 am
to 5 pm, by appointment.
Farside
Gallery is located at: 1305 Galloway Road (87th Avenue), Miami, FL
33174
Free
parking is available across the street at the Central Bible Assembly of God on
opening night.
Venue:
On view: November 29, 2014 through January 8, 2015
Event name: "Néstor
Arenas: Paisajes Transformer"
Event contact: Raissa
Soler
Event time: weekdays 11 am to 5 pm by appointment
Event email: farsidegallery@bellsouth.net
Event cost: $0.00
Event venue address: 1305
SW 87th Avenue, Miami, FL 33174
Event phone: 305-264-3355
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