Entrelazar 5, 2019

Javier Rey   Emerging artists

Edition of 7 + 1AP.

This artwork captures two solitary utility poles against a stark white backdrop, emphasizing simplicity and contrast. The left pole, rustic and wooden, displays two loudspeaker-like devices, evoking a sense of faded history and communication. In contrast, the right pole is sleek and metallic, adorned with a modern light fixture. The minimalistic presentation, featuring fine, delicate wires stretching across the canvas, creates a sense of tension and connectivity. The absence of background details allows the viewer to focus solely on the interaction between the poles, symbolizing the juxtaposition of old and new, tradition and modernity. This minimalist approach transforms everyday objects into a contemplative visual experience, highlighting the unnoticed beauty in urban infrastructure. The artist's precise execution and restrained color palette enhance the artwork's meditative quality, inviting reflective observation.

 “Entrelazar” arises from a trip through a Colombian wasteland. As the fog descended and covered nature, the artist noticed the presence of a series of lines that ran through the landscape: transforming it. It was about the light poles, an element that is repeated serially in the panorama, and that in some way, reveals a different idea of ​​the landscape, where the city “conquers” or rather “replaces” nature. From this discovery, the artist carried out a study where he let the poles show their parts and generate a tangle of lines, knots and even points that accumulated one on top of the other; revealing this new landscape system. "Entrelazar" is a photographic project that interweaves the essential elements that have come to light in my research: light, paper and the pole. Leading the artist to reinterpret, through layers of superimposed images, an agglomeration of “electric” lines in the sky.