Ornament and Barricade is Jaime Gili second solo show at Alejandra von Hartz, Miami. “Only after doing it three times and approaching a fourth, I realized that for exhibition titles, large projects, or even a series of paintings; I have repeated a dialectical formula that recreates links between Europe, European minds, and the coasts: South America or its local counterparts. I did it, for instance, when, for an exhibition in Winterthur, I placed Max Bill at Henri Pittier´s Park in Venezuela, and also when I completed the story of Gio Ponti on the Venezuelan coast and Reverón in the Mediterranean, for a series of paintings”.
Jaime Gili was born in Caracas in 1972. Studied first in Caracas, at a tropical Bauhaus that failed to change the country, never mind the world; later at the University of Barcelona, where he learned to be a painter but nobody was there to witness, and finally at the Royal College of Art in London, the city where he found his voice as an artist, paradoxically, based upon the Venezuelan modern tradition that he carried within. He has exhibited widely in Europe and the Americas and works mainly in London, but also in Barcelona and Caracas. He has created large commissions in public and private buildings integrating painting in architecture, in England, the US and Venezuela. He is currently developing his second largest one, a mural for Baltus House, a Condo in the Miami Design District, which will be ready in 2015. His work is represented in international collections like the Cisneros Collection, Saatchi Collection, British Government Collection, Banco Mercantil, and ESCALA, University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art.
Reception Thursday, November 20, 2014
Alejandra Von Hartz Gallery
2630 NW 2nd Avenue
Miami, FL 33127
305 438 0220
www.alejandravonhartz.net
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