José Luis Fariñas "Skirting the Apocalypse"
MIYAKO YOSHINAGA art prospects
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In his first New York exhibition since 2004's, The Beasts of Chaos, José Luis Fariñas unleashes a new series of meticulously detailed watercolors, Skirting the Apocalypse, featuring phantasmagoric creatures captured in various stages of metamorphosis as their bodies twist and rend, transforming into heaven-knows-what. In this exhibition, Fariñas has taken his sinister vision a step further by setting his figures in a landscape of embryonic skin, floating egg sacs, and fleshy pustules, to create abstruse dialogues with the foreground figures that may be fully understood only through the logic of dreams. Influenced by the artist's readings of the Old Testament and the Book of Genesis, Skirting the Apocalypse is nothing less than Fariñas' personal interpretation of the end of all things.
Critics have compared Fariñas' works to the demonological paintings of Brueghel and Bosch and to Goya's renderings of human suffering. Fariñas himself cites the influence of Durer, Da Vinci, Rembrandt, and Van Gogh, as well as the Cuban artists Wifredo Lam, Acosta León, and Carlos Enríques. But the impression one takes away from Skirting the Apocalypse is that of an intensely original artist working at the peak of his powers.
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from January 20, 2011 to March 05, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-01-20 from 18:00 to 20:00