MANUEL TERÃN (Chile, 1974).
"Eclectic (Lucio Fontana)". Tribute to the Geniuses, 2021.
Oil on canvas. With painted crevices.
Signed in the lower right corner. Signed, dated and titled on the back.
Measurements: 100 x 140 cm; 111 x 145 cm (frame).
In this work we can observe Lucio Fontana's characteristic language, which approaches an aesthetic of a conceptual nature, where he introduces the intellectual necessity in the exercise of reflecting on the work and its representation. In the catalogue of the exhibition "Tribute to the Geniuses", it is stated that "Terán tries to postulate the return of painting as a symbolic strategy. His tributes, which take the form of pastiches, are not. The artists he chooses to pay tribute to are admired by him (Francis Bacon, Banksy, Marc Chagall, Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Francisco de Goya, Lucian Freud, Keith Haring, David Hockney, Robert Indiana, Jaspers Johns, Yves Klein, Kusama-Velázquez, Roy Lichtenstein, René Magritte, Roberto Matta, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Joaquín Sorolla and Andy Warhol). The list could not be more heterogeneous. It does not follow any order. He pays homage to the artists he admires, even if his own work bears no relation to theirs. The heterogeneity of his preferences is patent and proves E. Gombrich right, for whom there is no art but artists. This extreme nominalism leads him to ignore aesthetic categories, as well as chronologies".
A Chilean artist living in Spain, with a degree in Fine Arts, Manuel Terán has developed his creative work in the field of the plastic arts and new technologies applied to art. Since he made his name in 1995 at the Salón de Otoño del Círculo de Bellas Artes in Santiago de Chile, he has held solo exhibitions and participated in group shows and fairs in Latin America and Europe. He has been awarded prizes such as that of the Real Academia de San Carlos de Valencia (2004).