Jose Luis Landet
Argentina, 1977
José Luis Landet's work is conceived as a place where events happen.
various ways of operating and assimilating cultural processes, crossed
by social, political and ideological actions. Its interest is focused on...
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Jose Luis Landet
Argentina, 1977
José Luis Landet's work is conceived as a place where events happen.
various ways of operating and assimilating cultural processes, crossed
by social, political and ideological actions. Its interest is focused on
investigate sociocultural vestiges or waste, such as
through the recovery of oil landscapes from the 1940s to 1970s
of romantic and bucolic characteristics, commonly performed by
amateur painters, the so-called "Sunday painters". In this sense, the
Landet's work seeks a certain notion of paradise, recreating an individual
apocryphal.
The materials that make up your works can be both these
pictorial representations, as well as other symbolic elements
such as everyday objects, photographs, letters, postcards, slides,
writings, magazines and books, generating material deconstructions and
conceptual.
The work of José Luis Landet highlights not only the materiality
of its elements, but also its memory load, time and use.
Likewise, each artistic project is imbued with specificities and, therefore,
Therefore, they require from the artist a complex creative action that starts from
from classifying to filing, including cutting, breaking, covering, falsifying,
immerse, fragment and simulate.
In this sense, the metaphorical-poetic actions of José Luis Landet are
They manifest in border areas, between the public and the private, the past
utopian and dystopian present, silence and communication or even a
universalizing history and gestures of historiographical resignification from
the local.
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José Luis Landet
He lives and works between Mexico City and Buenos Aires. He has exhibited in
important Latin American institutions, such as the Foundation
PROA in Buenos Aires, the Ex Teresa Museum of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires
from Mexico, FLORA ars+natura in Bogotá, where he has also carried out
a residence; and the Oaxaca Museum of Contemporary Art.
His work can be found in the Jumex and Museo de Arte collections.
Contemporary Oaxaca in Mexico; Louisiana Museum in Denmark;
LACMA, Sayago & Pardon and JoAnn Gonzalez-Hickey Collection in the US;
The Brillembourg Capriles Collection between Spain, the United States, and Venezuela
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