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Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 16 W x 20 H x 1.5 D in
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Slums or Shantytowns as a social phenomenon highly characteristic of cities in developing countries are the central focus of Alexis Duque’s work, in which architectural structures form one continuous urban sprawl. Lacking ceiling and facades, these precarious structures overflow with crowded objects and furniture. The meticulously crafted paintings in the series of “Babel” echo organic architectural shapes, these conglomerations of buildings present us with a stark contrast of realities in cities Worldwide. Challenging constructed responses to these images by triggering a double take in the way the viewer confronts the idea of urbanization within contemporary culture, Duque’s paintings explore perceptions of innocence and violence, transgression and balance. With this juxtaposition he pretends to create a response that fluctuates between purity and corruption, balance and distortion, the acceptance of an specific icon with its aesthetically and universal dimension and the repulsion and denial that chaos and misery produces.
Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:16 W x 20 H x 1.5 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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Ships From:United States.
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Imaginatively charting the psychological experience of space, Alexis Duque produces paintings and drawings of buildings and domestic interiors stacked and conglomerated into trippy, absurd mounds and towers. His compositions are detailed, highly organized, and meticulously architectural. With a psychedelic precision reminiscent of M.C. Escher’s, Duque uses perspectival tricks and surrealistic overlapping to render dozens of skyscrapers as a single red tower; or homes, living rooms, train tracks, and alleys as a mass on the verge of collapsing into itself like a black hole. The wheeling bird’s-eye view that he often employs recalls the Italian Futurists’ soaring imagery of cities as seen from airplanes. Through his playful stacking and piling, he reorders cities to examine the formal properties of their architecture. Alexis Duque holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The University of Antioquia, Colombia. His work has been exhibited in numerous venues including: at El Museo del Barrio, The Drawing Center and Praxis International Gallery in New York; The Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Long Beach, CA; Champion Contemporary, Austin, TX; The Alden B. Dow Museum of Science and Art, Midland, MI; RudolfV Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands and Galleri Oxholm in Copenhagen, Denmark. Duque’s work has been featured in several publications, including: "Imagine Architecture: Artistic Visions Of The Urban Realm”, “Caribbean: Together Apart Contemporary Artists from (part of) the Caribbean" Imago Mundi - Luciano Benetton, Blue Canvas Magazine, LandEscape Art review, Beautiful Decay, Artistaday, New American Paintings, Studio Visit Magazine, The East Hampton Star, The East Hampton Press and El Diario of New York. Duque currently lives and works in NYC.
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