Actuality isn’t what it appears, and even much less typically what one expects. In an age of pretend information, ever-changing circumstances, and a scarcity of safety, confronting actuality and the sensation of not becoming in could be overwhelming.
German Tellez is a migrant artist from Colombia and an MFA graduate of the New York Academy of Artwork. His inventive follow focuses on figurative drawing and portray, showcasing his love for technical sophistication and his deep curiosity within the human type. His expertise and technical talent are unmistakable—particularly in his portrayal of fingers and ft.
In his newest collection of work, Sacred Geometries, Tellez explores the unknown as a basic human expertise. Drawing from his personal life, he now delves into the expertise of encountering one other tradition, the place totally different social and communicative norms prevail over the acquainted or anticipated.
Shipwreck is the title of German Tellez’s first solo present at Gallery Poulsen. The exhibition presents a collection of work that, in every of their very own methods, tackle the sensation of being on unfamiliar floor—misplaced, confused, and in fixed search, like a shipwrecked vessel stranded on unknown terrain.
Like so many others around the globe, Tellez was uncovered to American media resembling cartoons, TV exhibits, motion pictures, meals, music, and books all through his upbringing. Consequently, he had expectations of what life in the USA can be like when he arrived, solely to seek out that actuality didn’t stay as much as these expectations.
The figures in Tellez’s new work are positioned in recognizable environments, surrounded by acquainted objects. Nonetheless, they’re anguished, fractured, and frantic, with many arms reaching out in an try to have interaction and work together with the world round them. They battle to seek out their place, to attach with their environment, and to say their proper to exist. By means of this, Tellez addresses a sentiment that’s extra related now than ever earlier than.
The exhibition explores the confusion of transferring to a different tradition and the problem of making new understandings of which means, codes, and behaviors. It additionally touches on the broader problem of becoming in and creating which means in an ever-changing world. The exhibition raises the query of how one navigates an accelerating world, the place know-how, economics, and beliefs evolve sooner than one can comprehend. In any case, how are we to organize for tomorrow when it by no means seems as anticipated?
Be a part of us for the opening on February twenty second at 12:00 the place German Tellez shall be current.
