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Jaime Barrera

Curaduría • Luciano Cedillo

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Monday to Friday from 9 am to 6 pm

Master Jaime Barrera was born in 1949 in Mérida, Yucatán, a place where he currently resides; trained as an engineer and by vocation as a plastic artist, he has obtained various awards both national and international and his works are in valuable collections in various parts of the world.

On more than fifty occasions his work has been presented in both solo and collective, in Mexico and abroad. It is important to mention some of them, such as the Florence Italian Biennale; the Broadway Gallery in Soho in New York in 2010 and in the exhibition International Effetto Biennale “Celebrating the Equinox” Mérida 2012. At the VIII Biennial of Arts Visuals of the State of Yucatan, the jury awarded first place to his work.

In 2016 it celebrated its 20 years of creation uninterrupted with two individual exhibitions; the first in the Museum of Contemporary Art MACAY Ateneo de Yucatan; the second “Memoirs” in the main gallery of the José Peón Theater Contreras and "Scenes from 20-20" in the Center Olympus culture. As part of his 20-year career years as an artist, a great art book is published called "The Voices of Water, Retrospective 1995-2015”. In April of this year he exhibited at the main gallery of the José Peón Contreras Theater “Count, 25 years 1996-2021”.

In November 2021, the Art Gallery opens Contemporary, Jaime Barrera; a new space culture in the north of the city of Mérida, with the objective of exposing, promoting and disseminating his work and that of other creators in Yucatan.

Casa Gemela, with this great exhibition, a well-deserved tribute to the career of one of the most important plastic artists in Mexico.

Abstraction has evolved its formal and significant features without leaving behind the new contributions and the way of conceiving art since the middle of the 20th century. Today, we are before an artist who has transformed his work and the materials he uses in it in an original way. The start applying watercolor on paper, to pass to acrylic and later to the integration of various materials that your trained eyes accidentally find or have on hand, such as paper, cardboard, wire, remains of paint that have dried in the boat or fragments of iron beautifully rusted by time, which he hoards as a hunter for lots of junk, transforming them, to through a new aesthetic organization on the surface of the canvas, in a sublime dialogue between them.

Instead of speaking from our perspective about the work of Maestro Jaime Barrera and trying to define his creative process, we believe it is better to give way to the author's own words, to know through his particular way of seeing and conceiving his pictorial world, his work:

"It really doesn't matter the typecasting or the location of my painting in multiple pictorial movements contemporaries. And it is that my painting is not so rigid or too planned. It is not systematic or methodical. Change the method a lot. Sometimes I start at one end or the other, other times I follow another plan, without starting with a place certain. I don't have a rigorous discipline. I paint what I want and when I want. It makes me want to paint and I paint. My work could be said to be located within abstraction poetry, whose lyricism is sustained on a composition freely conceived and with a color that springs from my soul. The forms of these paintings, the figures, structures, strokes and graphics enclose all languages, they are timeless, without memory. They venture to contain an infinite expression, the one that everyone wants to give it at different times. in it there is forms submerged between layers of matter, or superimposed, linked, blurred, transformed for the purpose of provoke in the spectator an atmosphere that seduces the senses.

I only suggest emotions, ideas, feelings through of my painting and the spectator finishes them with his own evocations and conclusions. This is because the abstract allows more reading possibilities than the figure, in such a way way that the spectator participates and finishes the work. My painting demands intense concentration and it is when a torrent of abstract shapes and colors rush into my brain with endless aesthetic options, desperate for born... Once defined and selected, I play with them and only after a mental process they become present to always on canvas or paper. It's an act of magic ends up fully satisfying my spirit and my conscience.”

Jaime Barrera | 1949

Master Jaime Barrera was born in 1949 in Mérida, Yucatán, where he currently resides; Trained as an engineer and with a vocation as a plastic artist, he has obtained various national and international awards and his works are found in valuable collections in various parts of the world.

On more than fifty occasions his work has been presented in both individual and collective exhibitions, in Mexico and abroad. It is important to mention some of them, such as the Florence Biennale in Italy; the Broadway Gallery in Soho in New York in 2010 and at the international exhibition Effetto Biennale “Celebrating the Equinox” Mérida 2012. At the VIII Yucatan State Biennial of Visual Arts, the jury awarded his work first place.

In 2016 he celebrated his 20 years of uninterrupted creation with two individual exhibitions; the first in the Museum of Contemporary Art Ateneo de Yucatán MACAY; the second “Memories” in the main gallery of the José Peón Contreras Theater and “Scenes from 20-20” in the Olimpo Cultural Center. As part of his 20-year career as an artist, a great art book called “Las Voces del Agua, Retrospective 1995-2015” is published. In April of this year he exhibited in the main gallery of the José Peón Contreras Theater "Recuento, 25 años 1996-2021".

In November 2021, the Jaime Barrera Contemporary Art Gallery opens; a new cultural space in the north of the city of Mérida, with the aim of exposing, promoting and disseminating his work and that of other creators in Yucatán.

Casa Gemela, with this great exhibition, pays a well-deserved tribute to the career of one of the most important plastic artists in Mexico.

Catalog of works in Elogio al Óxido

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