| cl | | | | with the confidence and authenticity of painterly |
| Jaime Gili was born in Caracas (Venezuela) in 1972. He | | | | gesture. Presented in a cluster, his paintings are not |
| grew up in a multicultural capital full of vibrant optical | | | | hung, but leaned against the wall, creating a temporal |
| art, a concrete city full of optimism. Caracas, in the late | | | | architecture inciting of the constant transience and |
| seventies, presented its own version of the | | | | development of urban space. Executed with a palmy |
| International modernism movement in art and | | | | palette, Giliâs large scale canvases capitalise |
| architecture. Its own take on Utopia, the look of the city | | | | on the power of aesthetics to motivate and allure. Bold |
| being created by artists and architects working | | | | splinters of pitch black, copper metallic, or tainted pink |
| together towards a single vision underwritten by a | | | | pierce through grounds animate with drips, smudges, |
| strong oil economy. | | | | and impassioned swipes, creating monumental fields of |
| In paintings such as Barbaro, Ochoa, and Trikalinou, | | | | raw, potent energy. |
| Jaime Gili incites the austere purity of geometric design | | | | |