Jorge Julian Aristizabal
United States
http://wwwjjav62.com
category: Painting
technique: Acryl
Style: Minimal / Concept-Art
Bio / Resumee / Statement:
Creating images that awaken that language of the unconscious is where the foundation of my work lies. I have always been intrigued by the way some images affect me, and how I react to them. I am interested in images not only that expresses ideas but also dispute those ideas. These images generate a thought process and open different doors into my memory as words often do. Creating a sense of confusion that alters my perception, where the familiar becomes unfamiliar. Where I live in the world, and what lives in my mind, and the conceptual relationship between these two equally fictive places, is what I want to make visible to the viewer.
I find a great deal of pleasure in creating images based on fragile structures that challenge and defy our sense of balance and order, both through the physical and the natural world. Defining concepts that not only demonstrate how vulnerable we are, but remind us of our emotional confusions, frustrations, and disappointments, as well as our sense of hope, enlightenment, joy and humour. I am interested in a paradoxical image that generates ambivalent feelings, i.e.: Is the bird headless or is it perpetually trapped, such as the confusion between seriousness and the absurd, compassion and mockery.
At the end of the creative process there is the expectation of making work capable of moving the viewer. Allowing them to see something that they were not apprised of. Silently making them an accomplice in the web where their turmoil and perception forces them to reflect whether they have become the spider or the prey.
Activities:
Jorge Julian Aristizabal was born in Medellin, Colombia, in 1962, and currently lives in Manhattan, New York, and works in Long Island City, Queens. Aristizabal received his BFA from Otis/Parsons school of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA (1985) and a BFA from Goldsmiths College, London, UK (2000). His work has been included in a numerous exhibitions VII Bienal de Bogota, Museum of Modern Art, Bogota, Colombia. (1999), For the Love of Dog, Pump House Gallery, London, UK (2000). Assembly Stepney City, London, UK (2001). He has had many solo exhibitions in Colombia such as: The Canary and the Board, Prints in the Memory of Jorge Julian Aristizabal, Museum de Antioquia (2003) Museum of Modern Art Barranquilla, Colombia (2003). And Museum Of Modern Art Bucaramanga, Colombia. (2004). In 2007 he inaugurated Until Now Drawings 97/07 at the Center for Contemporary Art, University of EAFIT, Medellin, Colombia, accompanied with a major publication of his drawings done in the last ten years.
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