Vol. 1 No. 3 March - May 2010
Front cover: Jaime Gili, Mashrabiya (detail), 2009, vynil. Exhibition COMMA04. Bloomberg Space, London, April 2009. Photo courtesy of the artist.
CONSTRUCTIVIST JUNGLE / INTERVIEW WITH JAIME GILI
Jaime Gili, Bill at Pittier, 2009. Exhibition at Kunsthalle Winterthur with Gran Salazar (left) and Yemaya (right). Courtesy Kunsthalle Winterthur.
Jaime Gili (*1972 in Caracas, lives and works in London) is known for his large-scale acrylic paintings that show geometrical forms in truly explosive compositions; an intricate mesh of forms and colors catches the spectator’s attention and draws it into the paintings or, on the contrary, with a dynamic impulse launches it beyond the artworks’ boundaries. Within the thicket of artificially designed surroundings and wallpapers, his large-scale paintings are integral parts, but at the same time they stand out as solitary and autonomous objects. Jaime Gili seems to combine the wilderness of the jungle with a formalist and reductionist artistic language; the result is a kind of Gesamtkunstwerk, a crystalline pulsating organism that almost comes alive.
By Oliver Kielmayer
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