José Yaque

José Yaque: channelling nature

José Yaque was born in Manzanillo, Cuba, a city now known for producing generations of internationally renowned artists. It’s also where nature was instilled in him as an important reality, a never-ending source of meaning and inspiration. A coastal city, Yaque grew up with the sea before him. Horizontality therefore finds a recurring place in his work. From his point of view, nature is the greatest creator in our lives.José Yaque works without a concept of medium or material. Instead he decides to perceive things in relation to other things, taking into account their full complexity, context and status. This indistinction between material and mediums causes a spontaneous approach in his artistic process. He is constantly experimenting, often trusting the initial attraction between himself and an object that inspires him. It’s the object itself that is in charge of inciting the growth of a work. He’s not directly looking for specificities to make a metaphor or a meaning in the work. This meaning comes from the relationship between artist and object and the intangible attraction between the two.
His paintings, most recogniseably the “Minerals” series, investigate painting as an object. For Yaque, painting is corporal, done by the body and not the hand. Through painting, the origin of colour is also deeply explored. This is a study that consequentially led him to learning about the geological universe under the earth, rock types and minerals, initiating a dialogue with an underground world.

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José Yaque: channelling nature

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