Harlequin 2#00012021 Print

Juan Elí Rodríguez Sánchez born 1975 Granada, Nicaragua. The experiences from the collaboration with Wolfgang Hunecke in the sector of art design, his education in the “Casa de los Tres Mundos” in Granada in Nicaragua and the work with other famous artists made Juanelí using extraordinary materials for his works, which add a deep clearness and three-dimensionality. Furthermore the use of these materials shows, that Juan Eli’s works are similar to the works of the spanish artist Antonio Tápies and the style of informalism, a movement, which arised in postwar-period, as well as Juan Eli in the 90ties was also influenced by the consequence of the war in Nicaragua. The expressionistic art of Juanelí Rodríguez contains explosive colours, free gesture and strong abstraction. The artist is exploring the interior of the human being. The discovery of new patterns is the most important part of his art. The humorous and also ironic moments of several works of Juanelí Rodríguez show the unresting aspect of the artist, who uses the phantasy of plain simplicity and the exciting world of dreams. The works fascinate because of their power and sensuality of tropical colours and lights of oil and acrylic on canvas. Juan Eli sometimes uses forms and objects of famous artists, alienates them and puts them in a new context, whereby he challenges the old heritage and gives the possibility to find new points of view. The term of nation and frontier is consciously crossed, because Juan Eli is looking for universality with his art.