Mirages #7, 2020

Javier Rey   Emerging artists

Mirages #7 by Javier Rey  Archival pigment print 

Medium size: 75 cm H x 55 cm W.  Edition 2/5 + 1AP 

More Editions & Sizes: Small: 55 cm H x 40 cm W.  Edition of 7 + 2AP Large: 123.5 cm H x 90 cm W.  Edition of 2 + 1AP Unframed 

This artwork presents a striking visual amalgamation, where a skyscraper seamlessly merges with the sky. The building, with its reflective glass facade, captures the surrounding clouds, creating a mesmerizing illusion of transparency and ethereality. This fusion blurs the boundaries between architecture and nature, inviting viewers to question the relationship between urban environments and the natural world. The crisp lines of the structure contrast beautifully with the soft, organic forms of the clouds, highlighting the interplay between human-made and natural elements. The artist adeptly uses light and reflection, crafting a scene that feels both grounded and surreal. This piece is a compelling statement on modernity and its entanglements with the environment, evoking a sense of wonder and contemplation.

Mirages. The idea of the monumental, utopian and modern city is constantly debated due to its own fragility. The idealization of the city is weak and vulnerable, threatened by the rudeness of its inhabitants. Mirages is a project that interprets this unrealizable idea of the city, creating a route of buildings that seem to float unpolluted, breaking the uniformity of the sky and integrating into it like castles of glass, where contemporary society deposits the idea of unattainable perfection. These crystalline masses reflect the sky as if they were above all things, camouflaging themselves, creating a bridge between the natural and the artificial.