Julio Galan
Julio Galan was born Dec 5 1959 BirthMuzquiz, Coahuila, Mexico.
Died Aug 4 2006
Categories: Painting Neo-Expressionism
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Paintings and biography
Galan’s painting recreates several worlds. On one hand, the recovery of the Mexican tradition, its history, its popular art, its bright and meaningful colours. On the other, the artist’s own universe: his fears, sexuality,myths and deepest desires. All this presented from a contemporary point of view, not without irony and humour.
Works and essay
Octavio Paz once called the culture south of the border ‘a mosaic, a broken mirror’. Mexican artist Julio Galan’s latest show, ‘El Oro Poderoso’, is full of the sort of narcissism that might be called mythic. With an expert eye for unsettling kitsch, Galan lets his beastly little id run riot, settling with equal comfort into the attitudes of both boy and girl, like an unsupervised child in a wardrobe…
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Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new... |
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South African Art Now. South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success... |
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James Rosenquist. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art. “Frank, funny, truthful, ironic and in every way an entertaining account of one major American artist’s involvement in an art movement that interests everyone–and, more than that, of his own character. Jim Rosenquist is a true American original and his book ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the last half-century of his country’s visual culture, high, low, and in between.” –Robert Hughes, amazon |
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