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Carlos Jacanamijoy: Olor a tierra

Almine Rech, Turenne, Paris

Sat 11 Jan 2025 to Sat 1 Mar 2025

64 rue de Turenne, 75003 Carlos Jacanamijoy: Olor a tierra

Tue-Sat 11am-7pm

Artist: Carlos Jacanamijoy

Almine Rech Paris, Turenne presents Olor a tierra, Carlos Jacanamijoy's first solo exhibition with the gallery.

To define Jacanamijoy’s paintings is to construct the genealogy of a signature cosmology that is the outcome of an intercultural fusion between his ancestors’ traditions and his Western artistic baggage. The artist adheres to the principles of Abstract Expressionism and the autonomy of color - a notion defined by Paul Gauguin - and, on his canvases, he offers a journey through the purity of his colors. Vibrant blues, yellows and reds that immerse us in a world of wild and altering environments that envelope and transport us to the forests of Colombia.

It is also a journey through the forest of the unconscious to transcendence along the road to the infinite based on Kant's notion of the sublime. A journey within ourselves; an invitation to pause and reflect. Something stands out when we contemplate the artist’s work: that intense blue reminiscent of Yves Klein but that is also fluid, intangible and filters through our hands like a spring. And so, his work is not a straight line with a defined beginning and end; it is more of a curve, a circular figure with no beginning or end that unravels before our eyes.

His work is included in the collections of Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France; National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C. US; Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, MAMBO, Colombia; Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia de Cali, Colombia; Museo de Arte de Pereira, Colombia.

A full press release by Leandro Varison, head of Research at Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, will follow.

Carlos Jacanamijoy, Olor a tierra, 2024. Oil on canvas 200 x 170 cm 78 1/2 x 67 in © Carlos Jacanamijoy - Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech. Photo: Studio Carlos Jacanamijoy

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