Jose Luis Landet

José Luis Landet - Without title

Técnica: Carbonchillo, enamel, defendant and flax oil on paper

Biografía del Artista: Jose Luis Landet Argentina, 1977 The work of José Luis Landet is conceived as a place where things happen various ways of operating and assimilating cultural processes, crossed for social, political and ideological actions. His interest is focused on investigate vestiges or sociocultural waste, such as: through the recovery of oil landscapes from the 1940s to the 1970s of romantic and bucolic characteristics, commonly performed by amateur painters, the so-called “Sunday painters”. In this sense, the Landet's work seeks a certain notion of paradise, recreating an individual apocryphal. The materials that make up their works can be both these pictorial representations, as well as other symbolic elements such as everyday objects, photographs, letters, postcards, slides, writings, magazines and books, generating material deconstructions and conceptual. The work of José Luis Landet highlights not only the materiality of its elements, but also its memory load, time and use. Likewise, each artistic project is imbued with specificities and, therefore, Therefore, they require from the artist a complex creative action that starts from from classifying to filing, through cutting, breaking, covering, falsifying, immerse, fragment and simulate. In this sense, the metaphorical-poetic actions of José Luis Landet are They manifest in border areas, between the public and the private, the past utopian and dystopian present, silence and communication or even a universalizing history and gestures of historiographical resignification from the local. --- Jose Luis Landet He lives and works between Mexico City and Buenos Aires. He has exhibited in important Latin American institutions, such as the Foundation PROA in Buenos Aires, the Ex Teresa Museum of Contemporary Art in the City from Mexico, FLORA ars+natura in Bogotá, where she has also carried out a residence; and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Oaxaca. His work can be found in the Jumex and Museo de Arte collections. Contemporary from Oaxaca in Mexico; Louisiana Museum in Denmark; LACMA, Sayago & Pardon and JoAnn Gonzalez-Hickey Collection in the USA; The Brillembourg Capriles Collection between Spain, the USA and Venezuela