Jaime Núñez del Arco
Bio
Jaime Nuñez del Arco´s pieces —on paper stock, used notebooks, disposed cardboard and found wood—manage to find poetry in-between absurd manifestos, sloganeering, sugary love letters, faux marketing jargon and bilingual wordplay. His prose and drawings, meditations on relationships, sex, technology, religion and art, are at the same time ironic, sweet and sentimental. He participated in ARTEBA (Argentina), 2021. In 2020, he opened his solo show, Gloria Gaynor was Right (N24, Quito), curated by Rodolfo Kronfle. In 2019, he opened Aquí y en everywhere at +ARTE (Quito); participated on The Exhausted Land (Klosterfelde Gallery, Berlin). The Saatchi Gallery (London) selected his work for the Screen Project. He has exhibited in Cuba, Seattle, Barcelona, Florence, Munich and Ljubljana. He has been published by Taschen and his book, Art to make pancakes, is part of the Public Library, NY and the MACBA museum, Barcelona. He is a graphic designer and founder and editor of Terminal.
Statement
I´m always surprised by the laughs my works generate when in front of an audience. Many of them are complex and uncomfortable meditations about contemporaneity. Possibly, the frankness with which I address universal issues like love, sex, loneliness or scenarios like the supremacy of anxiety, technological overflow and relationships politics acts like a mirror effect: discovering our real selves on reflection, we choose to laugh instead of crying.
At the same time, many pieces carry slogans, paragraphs and even short tales consciously designed to pull up a smirk. The art world –just like the real one- is serious and actually, kind of sad. At first sight, my work might be considered socially uncompromised, but facing with honesty and humor the cynicism of the status quo, it´s a political act in itself.
Additional information
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2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
