viernes, 25 de mayo de 2012



Conjeturas al otro lado del plano

Cuando nos aproximamos a la obra de un joven artista muchas veces debemos hacerlo de la mano de concepciones y menciones que nos ayuden a delimitar su campo de acción dentro de determinada escuela, tendencia, vanguardia.+
Las categorías tradicionales de la Historia del Arte nos han señalado por muchos años estos caminos, de modo que la llegada al final del mismo –la propia obra que en ese momento analizamos- no nos resulte ajena y nos permita, de estos modos, “llegar a ella”.
Sin embargo, este ejercicio pudiera tal vez significar querer encontrar un recodo travieso que nos permita explicar aquello que desde un inicio se encuentra cifrado, más que por las tendencias universales e históricas, por el propio devenir de la obra en estudio.
Por ese motivo tal vez resulte menos indirecto aproximarnos sin la necesidad de establecer límites en cuanto a filiaciones con vanguardias europeas del siglo XX, previas a las declaratorias del fin del arte y ya distantes, una vez superada la primera década del siglo XXI.

Precisamente en momentos de apogeo del arte digital, de las multidisciplinarias manifestaciones de los neo conceptualismos, de la apatía del arte representacional, de las infinitas revisiones al no objetualismo, resulta curioso encontrarnos con artistas graduados en el siglo XXI entregados a la disciplina y ritualidad del taller de pintura. Aunque desde Hegel se ha venido declarando su muerte con desánimo o entusiasmo en diversos momentos de nuestra historia, la pintura no ha cedido nunca a estos certificados de defunción atribuidos.
En el caso de Jairo Robinson tal declaratoria parece no haber hecho mella alguna en la cimentación de una obra que se afianza en sus propias convicciones y que hoy atraviesa un saludable proceso transicional dentro de su producción.

Luego de cuatro exposiciones individuales, Robinson parece haber cerrado un ciclo de indagaciones acerca de las posibilidades expresivas de planos cromáticos entretejidos en una reiteración rítmica y formal de lograda composición. Alejado desde sus inicios de la pintura representacional o figurativa, Robinson encontró en la composición de corte abstracto y geométrico el medio más eficaz y consecuente para representarse a sí mismo.  Desde entonces sus Construcciones han establecido diálogos personalísimos en infinitas capas de color y textura yuxtapuestas que prolongan múltiples puntos de fuga de equilibrio notable. Esta multiplicidad obsesiva, de tejido constante, pareciera no encontrar respiro salvo en las lejanas y escasas zonas ubicadas en las periferias de la perspectiva general de la composición, en el primer enfrentamiento con la tela en blanco representado por aquella primera mancha gestual basada en la ausencia de color con la que nace cada una de sus telas.  

Precisamente son esos breves espacios los que poco a poco han prevalecido notoriamente, convirtiéndose en importantes espacios abiertos, primigenios y potentes, de tal modo que se erigen como elementos moduladores de cada construcción.
En virtud de estas zonas los entramados comienzan a desplegarse, ya no reinantes, sino sutiles, hacia diferentes direcciones claramente delimitadas por la base originaria. No se trata de una constante, puesto que en algunos casos las intrincadas tramas pretenderán volver a regir desde el centro del soporte.
Se percibe entonces, una nueva reflexión en torno al propio espacio y a sus nuevas posibilidades, a las nuevas conquistas y sus riesgos, a la adecuación de la mirada a una forma diferente de representación y a los resultados que de ella se puedan obtener. Inquietudes varias que trazan el derrotero de exploración que el mismo artista ha abierto en torno a su obra. Sin duda, se trata de un momento de auto conocimiento fundamental.

Valeria Quintana Revoredo
Lima 2012

viernes, 11 de mayo de 2012

NOCHE EN BLANCO 2012
12 al 13 de mayo 2012 -Arte en el espacio público-
Desde la Av. Arequipa, cuadra 45, hasta el Óvalo de Av. Pardo.Toda la Av. Larco, hasta el Parque Salazar.Toda la Av. Diagonal y la Bajada Balta.Horario: desde las 7:00 pm. del 12 de mayo, hasta las 6:00 am.del 13 de mayo, 2012
Organizadores: Grupo DELIVERI, Municipalidad de Miraflores, Agrupación EUNIC
Características: Instalaciones de arte en diversos puntos del recorrido de la Noche en Blanco. Un escenario principal para conciertos ubicado en Av. Diagonal. Un pasacalle que inicia su recorrido en la cuadra 45 de la Av. Arequipa, a la altura de la Alianza Francesa. El tránsito vehicular estará detenido durante todo el evento.
Es un evento gratuito. Para todo público.











martes, 17 de enero de 2012

En pleno proceso del C.37.12 -acrilico sobre tela- 180 x 100 cm. -2012- . in the process of C.37.12 -acrylic on canvas- 71 x 39.5 in. -2012-.

domingo, 20 de noviembre de 2011


C.32.11 -acrilico sobre papel- 65 x 50 cm. -2011-
C.32.11 -acrylic on paper- 25.5 x 19.5 in. -2011-

viernes, 18 de noviembre de 2011


C.30.11 -acrilico sobre papel- 65 x 50 cm. -2011-
C.30.11 -acrylic on paper- 25.5 x 19.5 in. -2011-

C.33.11 -acrilico sobre papel- 65 x 50 cm. -2011-
C.33.11 -acrylic on paper- 25.5 x 19.5 in. -2011-

martes, 11 de octubre de 2011



Jairo Robinson
Constructing the garden of diverging paths.

Looking upon the totality of Robinson’s nascent work I always wonder: Why is it that a highly skilled painter when it comes to figurative work leans towards a non-representational art form? One answer might be the dissatisfaction with that which was achieved. Another one might be the longing for liberty in favor of a complete creative realization. Let’s see: while in art school, at the National School of Fine Arts of Peru, his works were made up of planes in which objects, silhouettes and recognizable figures were immersed. During the training period in which he had to represent textures, volumes and nudes, Robinson didn’t achieve what he wished for, in spite of the technical effectiveness of his work. He ambitioned more. If he painted skin, he needed to feel the pigment as such, avoiding a photorealistic finish which diminishes the strength of the paint. Once he solved the problems intrinsic to his training, his attention moved on to the application of his abstract-geometric interests into the formal academic principles. In his own words: “To unite my color planes with the academic work”. These attempts are evident in nudes in which the body is treated academically while the geometry of the background remains distant, like a mere compositional element, not integrated into the whole piece, unlike Frantisek Kupka who achieved this in works such as Planes by colors (a.k.a. The great nude) from 1910. After this, Robinson focuses on effectively disentangling that geometry as the central theme of his work, leaving behind the figure. He is, since then, immersed in an abstraction based on small designs that he would then reproduce –as he says- at a 90% level of similarity. It is this fact –basically copying his own work in a different scale- which frustrates him; in the words of the painter: “My work back then was burdensome; I now realize that it lacked spontaneity, fluidity”. Thus, for this exhibition, appropriately titled “Constructions”, Robinson relies on his instinct, on pure creativity in favor of the compositions themselves and not as a result of previous trials. Robinson declares his influences and one can understand which elements he has drawn from each of them, consciously or unconsciously, for his production. In this way it appears evident that from Beatriz Milhazes he gets the preference for a particular geometric shape; from Maria Elena Vieira Da Silva, the hatching; from Regina Aprijaskis the purity of color; from Sabogal, whose work was recently exhibited at the British Peruvian Cultural Center, the heftiness of the texture –keep in mind Robinson had a figurative period; from Sarah Morris, the line defining the color planes. If in the series “Member is an object” and “Forests” using the term abstraction got us closer to Robinson’s proposed line of work, this new “Construction” series deals more with the so called Concrete Art, since the artist does not have reality as a starting point in order to then abstract it and compose a piece, rather, he confronts the canvas from and absolutely mental and emotional standpoint. The square is a shape that does not exist in nature unlike the circle, the triangle and the ellipse. The square, a shape that came about as a mental construction of man, is the leading light of this new series; however, we can say that it is the visible face of the matter that concerns us. The origin of the well balanced and elegant compositions that Robinson shares with us, which have visceral manifestations, are chaotic, even anxious, and from which the order of the piece starts to appear; is a tension between the executioner and the execution, in which we don’t know which of the parts wins. We have already discussed Robinson’s influences, but it is without a doubt that the great melting pot of these painters has its origin in a period of the work of Kasimir Malevitch, a milestone for the history of modern painting. Malevitch, who left in writing that during his youth he believed that his mission as an artist was to represent nature as accurately as possible, took the geometric shapes to their limits in works such as Black square or White on white. However, the Russian artist referred to his works as a “New Realism in Paintings, towards absolute creation” (title of one of his many publications). Malevitch also wrote: “The keys of Suprematism are leading me towards discovering things outside of knowledge. My new paintings don’t belong only to this world”. New Realities. Discovering things outside of knowledge, precisely. What knowledge, what realities does Robinson discover in his compositions? Only he knows, but without a doubt, among the findings is the act of painting in itself, the great matter of painting for the sake of painting. Maybe Emil Nolde understood it that way after painting over and over canvases with views of the ocean from the island where he spent his last days before taking his own life. These canvases, seen today, show us part of the most decided informalism, of the most abstract expressionism. It is said that Nolde realized this and knew what was coming next. It is when an artist starts to understand where his work is going, that it becomes clear that he can’t start walking on a path without necessarily abandoning another one which he might as well have taken. In the natural evolution of Robinson’s work, we can see a canvas hatched with dark lines that to the eyes of the spectator would look like a canvas completely covered in black, and here I am not talking about the light variations on black as in the works of Ad Reinhardt. A climax towards which, painting after painting, the painter will feel closer and closer. Because of this, my intuition tells me that this artist, probably later than sooner, just like Malevitch himself did, will return to the figure as the central object of his production; or at least, he will recognize with certainty the moment in which he would have to choose between going back to try and get a hold of the figure in the way that he always ambitioned or to continue hatching away the path of his own reality

IVÁN FERNÁNDEZ-DÁVILA

C.29.11 -acrylic on canvas- 36 x 48 in. -2011-
C.29.11 -acrilico sobre tela- 91.4 x 121.9 cm. -2011-

C.31.11 -acrylic on canvas- 36 x48 in. -2011-
C.31.11 -acrilico sobre tela- 91.4 x 121.9 cm. -2011-

martes, 27 de septiembre de 2011

jueves, 8 de septiembre de 2011


C.23.11 -acrilico sobre tela- 150 x 150 cm. -2011-

sábado, 27 de agosto de 2011


C.25.11 -acrilico sobre tela- 180 x 150 cm. -2011-


C.26.11 -acrilico sobre tela- 140 x 300 cm. -2011-


C.22.11 -acrilico sobre tela- 100 x 120 cm. -2011-