JOSÉ YAQUE

'Tierra Madre' 

February - March 2017

David Gill Gallery is pleased to present ‘Tierra Madre’.

In order to prepare this new body of work, the Artist did a residency in London during October 2016. Over several weeks, José painted various canvases in different formats and colours, created charcoal drawings and sketched the projects of the installations, to be shown as Tierra Madre. The title of the exhibition alludes to the close relation of the artist’s work with nature, the riches of nature and the materials that make it up. The artworks emerge from the inspiration and the dialogue, which form and visualize nature in each component of the exhibition.  

Yaque’s special way of painting and his interrelation with his materials cause the resultant paintings, some of very large dimensions, to enhance the media he uses causing an apparent abstraction with each work taking on a telluric and almost dramatic force.  His drawings speak to us of the treasures inside great mining quarries. These “open-air mines”, as he calls them, reveals a relationship with nature, based on the beauty of the most refined stroke. The installations mix natural elements such as earth of different origins, stones, mineral components and recovered books, which are integrated into this substratum, framed by elegant showcases which harbour this new genesis in their interior. 

The paintings shown respond to the period of Yaque’s creations from the end of 2014, beginning with his personal exhibition “Magma”, up to the works created during his residence in London at the behest of David Gill Gallery. The textual material is composed of two interviews realized by the curator Laura Salas Redondo in 2014 and 2016, which also give a timeframe for his work and thoughts, accompanied by a critical text by Elizabeth Pozo Rubio.

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