""The two Founds liberty" (Les dues fonts alliberades)" Photograph - Limited Edition of 1

XAVIER DE JUAN-CREIX
PORTRAIT OF A VISIONARY ARTIST


It is not easy to classify with a single term the art of Catalan Artist Xavi de Juan- Creix. His work is so rich in artistic, anthropological, symbolic, conceptual references. Through photography, music, video art and poetry, he gives us the world as it is, in all its facets, in its uncertainties and illusions. As in a mirror maze, our artist-warrior, explore the world, bringing out archetypes and mythographies, overlapping to the thoughts, words, feelings that he every day brings with it, in its wealth of experience and meetings . A traveling poet, with an energy ready to explode at any place he suspected or imagined.

During his journey of wandering poet, he recognize and meets himself in chaos (forces of nature) and the order (ability to analyze, to select, to program). Between one and the other, the process of purification that leads him to discover his own identity in a thousand alter ego.

The experience of light, divine or earthly is at the center of all his work. A light shade contrasts, highlighting the two opposite poles without separation. The one meets the other and nothing is excluded. Good and evil. Positive and negative. Being and not being. No opposition but conjunction, union, which is also the synonym of identity of human being, of his otherness and of the Anthropos.

It proposes the investigation and the description of those spiritual phenomena by observing the soul of the scientific world and beyond. And this inner quest that leads Xavi de Juan-Creix to investigate the world where he lives in, looking the amenities and symbols to make sense of things, making us participate in his visions. Starting point is the relationship between nature and God and then continue on human experience and so on man-environment looking for a deep and mysterious self, divided between good and evil, between past worlds and current reality, also between myth and modernity and between tradition and innovation.
The historical context and the machine to create



Analyzing his work, I find references in the art of the historical avant-garde, in the unconventional heroes of Jean Genet, in the poets of the beat generation, in the figures that populate the works of Antonin Artaud and Samuel Beckett, in the underground culture of films and experimental music.