JAVIER BARILARO IN PERU: POETICS OF DETAIL
The Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (ICPNA) presents at the Venancio Shinki Space in Miraflores Como si la verdad importara (As if truth mattered), an exhibition that deploys a series of pictorial strategies designed to challenge perception and question the notion of certainty in the image.
Through a personal palette and an economy of means, Javier Barilaro creates a group of seven works that explore the tension between the visible and the hidden, the structured and the random, the defined and the evanescent, employing various nuances that generate both conceptual and visual contrast.
“Barilaro’s work offers resistance to the visual automatisms of the present. Each painting is an exercise in contemplation that defies the logic of immediacy, proposing instead a poetics of detail, of error, of deviation,” said Charles Miró Quesada, curator of the exhibition.
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Javier Barilaro. Cortesía del ICPNA
The display reinforces this logic: the works float in space, forcing the viewer to move, to come closer, and to actively reconstruct each image. The only painting anchored to the wall serves as a turning point, intensifying the play between openness and closure.
In a context marked by visual standardization and the expansion of artificial intelligence, the exhibition proposes painting as a space of resistance, where each pictorial gesture becomes an act of uncertainty and freedom.
Como si la verdad importara will be open to the public until May 25, 2025, at the Venancio Shinki Space of ICPNA Miraflores, Av. Angamos Oeste 120, Miraflores, Lima (Peru).
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