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January 24, 2008- February 23, 2008
Reception: January 24, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Jorge Tacla
Galeria Ramis Barquet
532 W 24th St Jorge Tacla Escombros #2 (2007) |
For decades, Jorge Tacla has been interested in architectural spaces -- mainly interiors-- that depict a world in ruins. These architectural structures seem as remnants of real or imagined civilizations; archetypes which project man at odds with the forces of history. Over the past years, and concurrent with eminent threats to our urban existence, Tacla has shifted his attention to less intimate aerial cityscapes, which in his paintings become almost abstract, to the extent that architectural topography seems like a hardened skin in the landscape.
Combined into a single, relevant viewing experience, Tacla’s paintings in RUBBLE, fall into two thematic groups. The Trauma series is an interpretation of the processes of the human body. The fabric-like textures of these paintings are interwoven into an organic, flesh-like network evoking the cellular composition our body. The second thematic group is embodied by the Rubble series. Each of these works portrays an urban landscape in the aftermath of a bombing or attack. The ruins depicted in these paintings connect back to the Trauma series, through the thread-like quality and the porous texture which draw the viewer inside the painting and at the same time give the cityscapes another degree of fragility. The Rubble series is a study of the toll of war in which buildings represent human suffering. The sober colors of the works combined with the texture produced by a mix of turpentine and marble powder imbue each painting with a feeling of desolation in the aftermath of violence and terror.
Jorge Tacla was born in Santiago, Chile in 1958 and has lived in New York since 1981. Among his most recent exhibitions was Escombros, held in October at the Galeria Animal in Santiago, Chile. He has also participated in various group shows at Colgate University and the Washington Museum of Fine Arts among others. In 2002, a permanent gallery of his work (Sala Tacla) that showcases the mural Irrealidad Eterna (1998 – 2002) was opened in Ciudad Empresarial, Santiago de Chile.
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