José Luis Landet

José Luis Landet - Untitled

Technique: Charcoal, enamel, encaustic, linseed oil on paper

Artist Biography: Jose Luis Landet Argentina, 1977 José Luis Landet's work is conceived as a place where diverse ways of operating and assimilating cultural processes different ways of operating and assimilating cultural processes, traversed by social, political and ideological actions. by social, political and ideological actions. His interest is focused on researching socio-cultural vestiges or debris, as it could be through the recovery of through the recovery of oil landscapes from the 1940s to the 1970s with romantic and bucolic of romantic and bucolic characteristics, commonly made by amateur painters, the so-called "painters amateur painters, the so-called "Sunday painters". In this sense, Landet's Landet's work seeks a certain notion of paradise, recreating an apocryphal individual. apocryphal individual. The materials that make up his works can be either these pictorial representations or pictorial representations, as well as other symbolic elements, such as everyday objects such as everyday objects, photographs, letters, postcards, slides, magazines and books, generating material and conceptual deconstructions. conceptual deconstructions. The work of José Luis Landet highlights not only the materiality of his elements, but also their of its elements, but also its load of memory, time and use. Likewise, each artistic project is imbued with specificities and, therefore, require a complex action from the artist. therefore, require from the artist a complex creative action that starts from the from classifying to archiving, from cutting, breaking, covering, falsifying, submerging, fragmenting and simulating, submerging, fragmenting and simulating. In this sense, José Luis Landet's metaphorical-poetic actions manifest themselves in border zones. manifest themselves in border zones, between the public and the private, the utopian past and the dystopian the utopian past and the dystopian present, silence and communication, or even a universalizing history and gestures of resignation. universalizing history and gestures of historiographic resignification from the local. the local. --- José Luis Landet Lives and works between Mexico City and Buenos Aires. He has exhibited in important Latin American institutions, such as the PROA Foundation in Buenos Aires, the PROA in Buenos Aires, the Museo Ex Teresa de Arte Actual in Mexico City, FLORA ars+natura in Bogota Mexico City, FLORA ars+natura in Bogota, where she has also held a residency; and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca. His work can be found in the Jumex and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca collections in Mexico. Contemporary Art Museum of Oaxaca in Mexico; Lousiana Museum in Denmark; LACMA, Sayago & Pardon and JoAnn Gonzalez-Hickey Collection in the USA; The Brillembourg Capriles Collection between Spain, USA and Venezuela.