Elle,
2023
Zeta Yeyati
Painting : aerosol paint, collage, mixed media
70 x 50 x 0.5 cm 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
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70 x 50 x 0.5 cm 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Artwork location: Mexico
Elle obra de Zeta Yeyati a male portrait that explores both intimacy and universality
Elle obra de Zeta Yeyati is one of those pieces that suspend time. Measuring 50x70cm, created on paper using mixed media techniques including acrylic, stencil, and collage, it presents a male figure whose identity unfolds in a poetic mirror. The central character, named Elle, embodies an intentional ambiguity between masculinity and mystery, a singular figure emerging from a narrative that fuses reality and imagination. His gaze, composed of minimal lines and subtle transparencies, carries a captivating intensity. The use of unconventional materials such as reused fragments and layered textures adds not only visual richness but also ethical and symbolic depth. Elle is not merely a figure but a symbol of fragmentation, of reconstruction, of latent value. In this work, Zeta Yeyati shows that his art transcends aesthetics, reflecting a vital philosophy where transforming the discarded becomes a powerful and accessible artistic act. Elle obra de Zeta Yeyati is more than a portrait, it is a visual voice rising from what was once forgotten.
From sound to line the sensitive origin of Zeta Yeyati
Zeta Yeyati, born in Burzaco in 1965, moves effortlessly between disciplines, but it was in the visual arts that his creative journey began. While he is well known for his music, it was drawing and woodworking that sparked his imagination in childhood. This deeply rooted sensitivity, linked to handmade creation and materiality, has shaped an artistic vision where recycling is not just technique, but perspective. His work breathes the visual poetry of the recovered, of that which society discards but art reclaims.
Elle obra de Zeta Yeyati recovered matter shaping identity
Elle obra de Zeta Yeyati encapsulates the artist's creative approach. Self-taught and independent of academic constraints, Yeyati works with fluidity, blending intuition with ecological awareness. As in much of his work, he uses urban remnants and found objects with memory, transforming them into visual language through collage and assemblage. Elle becomes a symbolic figure built not only with pigment but with layers of history and textures that evoke lived and imagined experiences. The hybridization of graphic and pictorial languages, free brushstrokes, deliberate stains, and the thoughtful use of compositional space structure a scene where narrative speaks without words. The artwork exudes a nostalgic air with playful and even ironic touches, inviting the viewer to imagine their own story behind the character.
Where others see waste Zeta Yeyati finds revelation
Elle obra de Zeta Yeyati perfectly captures the artist's aesthetic and ethical vision. It is not merely a visually engaging piece but a statement of values: the possibility of giving new life to what is discarded, of building beauty from the broken, of stirring emotion with the everyday. This work does not impose meaning but opens symbolic doors, where each line, color, or texture becomes a trace of the world we live in. Elle is a figure that watches and is watched, that inspires and questions. With this piece, Zeta Yeyati reaffirms that art does not simply reflect reality, it can redraw it with sensitivity and purpose.
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Zeta Yeyati (Burzaco, 1965) is a visual artist who has transformed recycling into a poetic language and forgotten matter into an act of aesthetic redemption. While the public has come to know him as a musician in projects like Los Intocables, La Mississippi, or Babel Orkesta, his true creative roots lie in the visual arts. Visual expression was his first terrain. Before the chords came drawing. Before the stages came interlocked tree trunks.
A restless and sensitive autodidact, Yeyati attended workshops with figures such as Antonio Pujía, León Ferrari, and Diana Aisemberg, yet his work doesn't follow any formal school. He moves freely between ceramics, collage, stencil, and assemblage. His aesthetic is nourished by what others discard: street posters, scraps of iron, furniture legs, bronzes, and aged wood. A dumpster was his first museum. Then came flea markets, where he continues to collect remnants for his unique pieces.
In his works, dogs, birds, musicians, queens, horses, and magicians coexist, as if each figure emerged from a story older than the object itself. His repertoire is populated by characters that rise from the collage with the force of a lucid dream. He does not seek to imitate reality but to reincarnate fragments of it. As curator Rodrigo Alonso described, his art is a “vital philosophy" — a gesture that defies consumerism and embraces the possibility of reviving the forgotten.
Color —present with striking intensity in his recent work— arrived through an internal shift: his encounter with Milo Lockett, which not only redefined his palette but also his way of sharing his universe. Since then, Yeyati's work pulses with a more playful energy, without losing its symbolic depth.
Yeyati does not merely create images —he builds an emotional archaeology from the remnants of everyday life. Each work is a story made of time, memory, and waste; a rescue act that restores humanity to matter. From that gesture —profoundly plastic and profoundly human— his art speaks to those willing to look beyond the surface.
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