The Barcelona-based artist is doing time at Wally Workman Gallery
, the Barcelona-based artist Juan Luís Jardí has not become unstuck in time. That may not be true, though, for many of the people depicted in Jardí’s meticulous oil paintings of magical realism, now on view in his solo show “Tiempo Sostenido” at
You know about time ghosts, right? All those spectral iterations of self left behind as we move from one moment to the next, ever remaining in place among the architecture and infrastructure, no matter how many years, decades, centuries pass? Walk into the Workman Gallery right there off West Sixth, and how many time ghosts are you phasing through, how many former selves who visited previous shows throughout the gallery’s 44-year history? When you climb the stairs to the venue’s doors, do you...
These paintings reveal glitches of the mind’s clock, or possibly the heart’s clock, the intimate stutterings that can occur when trying to express in word or image what’s gone before. How convenient, for comparison’s sake, that the Workman Gallery’s– his paintings’ intentional glitches are more literal in the fabric of depiction, more broadly cultural, the ultravivid Hollywood version of what the gentle Jardí is depicting in his quietly disturbing scenes of “Tiempo Sostenido.
And never mind Istanbul – who the hell is Esther Greenwood, anyway? Oh, right: The narrator of Sylvia Plath’sAnd how old were you when you read that descent into madness, and who were you back then? And how many years was that after you visited New York’s Coney Island with your grandparents, both long dead now and become the more generally acknowledged sort of ghosts? Ask the boy strolling that NYC attraction’s thoroughfare with a leashed rhinoceros in Jardí’s; maybe he knows.
Juan Luís Jardí, notes the artist’s statement on his website, “strives for his work to provoke feelings: nostalgia, melancholy, loneliness, and a sense of uneasiness as well as feelings of euphoria and calm.
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