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ALEXIS YEBRA
La validez de la pintura
En el uso recurrente de la tachadura Alexis Yebra encuentra la posibilidad de olvidar lo aprendido, pero también halla un intersticio para reabrir el juego de la pintura y de la memoria.
Funciona como recurso de ocultamiento, pero también como desmemoria liberadora que aliviana la tradición de la historia del arte y de la pintura.
En trazos que aparentan simular costuras, logra unir ese vinculante sentimiento ambiguo entre el recuerdo y la amnesia, para crear sin el lastre de las convenciones.
Se vuelca hacia lo pictórico y además se permite jugar, irónicamente, con objetos, con palabras y citas que incluye dentro de los soportes, todo ello para volver a cuestionarse sobre la validez de la pintura en la contemporaneidad.
Yebra es un artista sagaz que con mirada sutil, logra poner en evidencia el entramado del arte mismo y de los mecanismos que lo transforman en una instancia de comunicación, tan compleja como necesaria.
María Lightowler
The validity of painting
Alexis Yebra finds in the recurrent use of crossing-out the possibility of forgetting what has been learned, but also an interstice to reopen the game of painting and memory.
It works as a resource of concealment, but also as a liberating forgetting that relieves the tradition of the history of art and painting.
With strokes that seem to simulate seams, he manages to unite that binding ambiguous feeling between memory and amnesia, to create without the burden of conventions.
He turns to the pictorial and also allows himself to play ironically with objects, with words and quotations that he inserts into the supports, all to question once again the validity of painting in the present.
Yebra is an astute artist who, with a subtle gaze, manages to highlight the framework of art itself and the mechanisms that transform it into an instance of communication, as complex as it is necessary.
María Lightowler
Franco-Argentine artist born in the City of Buenos Aires in 1967. Since 2018, he lives and works in Buenos Aires.
He studied at the Mendoza School of Fine Arts. He has a degree in sociology from the National University of Cuyo and a Master's in Political Science and Sociology from FLACSO Argentina.
As an artist, Yebra has participated in numerous salons and exhibitions, obtaining a jury mention award in 1989 at the Salón Vendimia (Mendoza, Argentina). He has carried out construction clinics with Ticio Escobar, Laura Batkis, Jimena Ferreiro and Laura Spivak. His works are present in private collections in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay (CAV/Museo del Barro) and France.
Individual expositions
2019. « In the lunar shadow of words » CAV/Museo del Barro, Asunción, Paraguay
2016. « Paintings 2012-2016 », Galerie Marland, Angoulême, France
2015. « Intensité de la matière », Les Modillons cultural space, Angoulême, France / Lecture at the 'École nationale des Chartes, Paris, France; dedicated to « L'Egohistoire des créateurs » together with Agnès Callu in the framework of the seminar she directs « Epistémologie du dessin : Concepts, Lectures et Interprétations, XIX-XXI siècles » Proceedings published in January 2021
2014. Paradis Gallery, Marseille, France
2012. «L'ombre et son empreinte», Paradis Gallery, Marseille, France / «The shadow and its footprint», CAV/Museo del Barro, Asunción, Paraguay
2011. «Series, Subte Asunción», Factory Gallery, Asunción, Paraguay
collective exhibitions
2018. «Participation in the DDD « «Dessein, Dessin, Design : Fabrique médiatique de l'Histoire» during the drawing week in Paris.
2016. « Le Contemporain dessiné, Parcours aux Arts décoratifs » exhibition presented during the 10th edition of Drawing Now Paris, at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris, France / Daniel Rueda Gallery, Mendoza, Argentina
2014. Daniel Rueda Gallery, Mendoza, Argentina / Galerie L'Entrepôt, Monaco
2013. «Sortir de sa reserve», Paradis Gallery, Marseille, France
2012. « Shared Space », Navarro Correas winery, Mendoza, Argentina
2011. « Urban Imaginaries », ECA (Contemporary Art Space) Mendoza, Argentina
2010. « Tribute to Orlando Pardo », Museum of Fine Arts "Casa de Fader", Mendoza, Argentina
2009. «There are clothes hanging», ECA (Espacio Contemporáneo de Arte), Mendoza, Argentina (work selected by curators Mauricio Bravo and Ricardo Villarroel)
2008. « Re-lecture » French Alliance, Mendoza, Argentina
1989. Vendimia Hall (selection of the jury and honorable mention award of the jury) / Pacific Galleries, National Rooms, Secretary of Visual Arts of the Nation, CABA
1988 and 1987. Harvest Hall (selection of the jury), Mendoza, Argentina