Jorge Perianes “Sin Título” at Galería Max Estrella, Madrid

Jorge Perianes, Sin Título, 2013. Synthetic fiber. Detail. Courtesy the artist and Galería Max Estella.

Jorge Perianes
Sin Título
31 January – 6 April 2013
at Galería Max Estrella, Madrid

The ambiguity and uncertainty are concepts that arise from observing his works, pieces of aesthetic beauty, colorful and polished, always perfectly calculated, that works as a lure to the viewer. Jorge Perianes metaphorically indicates the pretensions of his work: “Its inner gear is very similar to the carnivorous plants or flowers. They are structures that bring you closer to a story that is perhaps cruder or more cruel than it seems”. Thus, Perianes seeks people to get closer to the works and to be caught by them, even though at the end they do not understand the message. Using subtle mechanisms of attraction-repulsion-deception, with a distinctly scenographic, which he normally conceives ex profeso for the place where the piece will be exposed.

Jorge Perianes reflects, on the basis of a precise aesthetic and symbology, about the concept of human being in its entirety, based on notions such as habitat, identity, and nature. From a personal attempt oriented to the culture of the detail, the artist try to approach issues that concern the man, like death, his inability to know himself, to find his place or to adapt the destiny to his wishes. That is why he takes years working from the ends of the classical categories to try to encircle the concept of being: a world of extremes ranging from birds to insects, from trees to houses or cages, from attics to basements, etc., thus the always recurring connection of the stairs, which singularly do not lead anywhere; so, he disguises with black humor the discouragement and the emptiness of the man, making balances in the ambivalent, moving between the dramatic and the absurd, in which the characters resemble unable to comprehend the fate of the events which await them. [read the full text here]

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Jorge Perianes, Sin Título, 2013. Synthetic fiber. Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Galería Max Estella.

Jorge Perianes, Sin Título, 2013. Wood, expanded polyurethane and acrylic painting. Courtesy the artist and Galería Max Estella.

Jorge Perianes, Sin Título, 2013. Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Galería Max Estella.