Jaime Gili

Born 1972 in Caracas, Venezuela


“An excessive visuality of the explosion or crash” - David Ryan / Artpapers

“A reconfiguration of the essence of moment with a blast” - Sacha Craddock / Jerwood space catalogue


Jaime Gili  grew up in a multicultural capital full of vibrant optical art, a concrete city full of optimism. Caracas, in the late seventies, presented its own version of the International modernism movement in art and architecture. Its own take on Utopia, the look of the city being created by artists and architects working together towards a single vision underwritten by a strong oil economy.

 

By the time Gili began his art studies in Prodiseño, Caracas in 1988, he was witnessing the willful destruction, dismantling and ruin of some of the city’s major institutions, its architecturally important buildings and its urban, public art.

 

Gili is currently engaged in several series of paintings, curatorial projects and photographic works that reference historical and peripheral modern movements. His aim is to resurrect for the present the positive elements which served as a source of creative energy as he grew up. To bring about a new way to think Utopia. An ability to dream and be able to project and execute that dream.



Jaime Gili, Bloomberg Installation – London April 2009.