Juan Andrés Videla
Pintura
November 9 to December 7, 2016
Curatorial text
Juan Andrés Videla dedicates himself as a refined naturalist to painting the physical, tactile and palpable evidence of his still lifes, landscapes, interiors and objects, and at the same time injects them with inconsistency, unreality. The spirit of the changeable relentlessly disrupts and disturbs the explicit, univocal quality of the visible, and a damp veil makes all enduring certainty, still confined to the shelter of a plausible congruent, to be perceived as an illusory construction.
The world as an archive, as a magnificent theater of the existing with its props and tinsel, is exhibited to us in a familiar and empathetic garb, halfway between lyrical realism and romantic rapture, but everything also seems to be at the mercy of a law of imminent dissolution, as if the forms carried in their own enunciation an intimate, enigmatic denial, revealing their secret condition, their fragile reality of mirage.
The artist submits to scrutiny both the essential materiality of his motives and the entity of the pictorial phenomenon, as inseparable parts of the same dilemma. What is remarkable is that he does so by also abandoning himself to the pure pleasure of painting, a hedonism that neatly permeates the viewer as one of the forms of fascination.
Eduardo Stupia
October, 2016
