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Hello, Im Juan Miguel Palacios,
I am an artist living in Brooklyn and Im very happy to see you here
Well, I *** it up, see? Whenever I have to look at the camera
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This is a very funny story, and very easy. I actually started painting thanks to my mother.
Because, Ive been painting my whole life and when I was I kid I guess I was the kind of kid that used to paint on the floors all day
and my mom insisted in bringing me to painting classes, which I didnt want to go. I wanted to go to Karate, like every other boys.
And one day she asked :Do you want to go to Karate classes? After having asked me 40 times to go to painting classes and me saying no every time,
so of course when she said if I wanted to go to Karate I said yes, and she actually brought me to a painting class.
When I saw it I was very impressed but I stayed, and I havent done anything different since then.
This is something very simple. I started like 6 years ago, or something like that.
Experimenting a little bit, and actually, what I was seeking was to achieve more deepness in my work.
I was a bit tired of the ordinary paintings, and at the end painting is an optical effect,
and somehow I was tired of only recreating that optical effect and I wanted something physical, look for more deepness.
So I started working with polyester, which is a transparent resin, so I used to paint, and then add a layer of polyester, I painted on top again, then add another layer of polyester
but this brought me some problems. Suddenly one time, with the high temperature of the polyester, the color changed, it was acrylic paint, so the color changed,
and I couldnt correct it because everything was mix together and also the weight.
So after thinking about it, finally I thought: Well, if what I am doing is actually painting on layers, why dont I just do it on separated layers?
And after that, I did some tests and I got to this, which offers me a huge universe when it comes to represent something.
Actually, this is very easy, I work mainly in what Im thinking.
In what I am thinking in the moment when I am working, or in the period that Im in.
And somehow my art is what I want to represent, so people can understand.
That is why I normally work in different series, because trying to create a general idea in a single piece is very hard for me,
so I think that the public can get a better idea with the series as a whole.
So I want to actually talk about each series.
If we go back in time, the series ingravidos for example, this series is about the lost of identity of the individual within the collective.
In big societies like the ones nowadays, huge cities, the identity of the individual does not have sense.
What really makes sense is the collective itself, and sometimes, the individual is lost inside that collective, it doesnt find that identity.
Thats why I represent figures that dont have corporeal nature, that are quite transparent, and that look like falling or floating in the space. Being that a sign of lack of identity.
Emotions in the series of Emociones I talk mostly about the language of gesture, I am very interested in how we communicate through the gestures.
And in this kind of art work I always try to generate a bit of ambiguity so the observer can decide how to finish the piece. So I always generate pieces that are not too evident,
where its not easy to know if the figure is laughing or crying, if it is feeling pleasure or pain, if there is an aggression or pleasure, for example in this piece, is there and aggression?
Which kind of aggression? If it is sex or pain thats the concept more or less.
The series of Abandonos which is one of the last things I am doing, what I try to do is to use the abandoned space as a tribute to the lack of mourning when facing a loss.
And I actually think that it is really important to mourn, to cry a loss.
And more and more we go over it in a fast way because we want to avoid that momentary pain,
but I think that mourning is important so that pain doesnt appear again.
And thats it basically For example in this kind of pieces of Epidermis where you can see the figures huddled, somehow it means the fear to the exposure in public.
I see more and more how people are more unable to show how they really are, and that generates that kind of fear.
Thats why I create those nude images with huddled figures which dont want to be exposed.
And well, even if I am very figurative, I always end up working on a concept, and the concept is which basically I am thinking of, or the experiences that Im living, or the way that my head is taking.
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Hello,
I am Jaun Palacios
for Quiet Lunch.