Juan Dolhare: Poetics of Erratic Materialism

March 21 – May 2, 2013

Juan Dolhare
El Presidigitador Alado, 2012
Oil on canvas
58 3/4h x 78 1/2w in
Juan Dolhare
Persistencia II, 2011
Oil on canvas
59h x 42w in
 
Juan Dolhare
El Op, 2012
Oil on canvas
59h x 42w in
 
Juan Dolhare
Mino-Taunus, 2010
Oil on canvas
85h x 59w in
 
Juan Dolhare
El Sueño de las Dos Casas y las Dos Mucamas, 2010
Oil on canvas
85h x 59w in
 

Press Release

Poetics itself, as a literary discipline, is not attached to a purely linguistic or conceptual pose, nor is it attached to a purely aesthetic pose. It does not work as a story or as a static definition, but rather, the concept of triggering new ways of aperture, and revealing substance.

Poetics of erratic materialism is an installation that speaks to us as observers, and that which does not reveal nature but creates a magical, contradictory, and romantic vision of the world and history, built through sacred images, objects and popular saints. This series demonstrates Dolhare’s works in static images and with some religious marginality. Poetics of erratic materialism steps into an idiosyncrasy that makes sacred what is pagan and turns everyday objects into massive objects of desire. In doing so, Dolhare searches in the symbolic, romantic and pop narratives, seeking the evasive answer that explains existence.

Dolhare believes in the power of lies implicated in every big story or historic narrative, and also believes in artistic construction of narratives as an existential truth. His process of working could be defined as pop-surrealist, or as he calls it, surrealist-sacred-populist. Dolhare’s works are in private collections in Argentina, Spain, Nigeria, Scotland, and the United States.

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