Jorge Canale
Maman. Buenos Aires
In this new exhibition, “El Ajuar”, in Maman Gallery, Jorge Canale (1954) creates once again, with the refined aesthetics that characterizes him, the adequate space and atmosphere to convey his message. The first work, the portrait of his mother dressed as a bride, life-size and meticulously drawn in pencil on an immaculate white canvas, faces a chair, empty and white, placed on a circular platform, also white. A chair that invites the viewer to explore this profound, intimate world in which absence plays the lead role.
From there, each of his “Wooden Stereostructures on painted canvas”, with their lights and shades and their empty forms, are evidence of the artist’s poetics. They are monochrome planes, made of mauve, gold or lavender-colored satin, on which rest the rods that in past times were the soul of the wooden coat hangers from which hung the garments that made up his mother’s trousseau, and that today, resignified under the attentive look of the son, turn into new and interesting geometric structures.
An architect, graphic designer, visual artist and, essentially, a conceptualist who loves pure forms, Jorge Canale, with few elements and with a minimalist and subtle language, proposes that we reflect on the task imposed upon us by Modernity without us realizing it, which for the very essence of our existence. An idea that is revealed to us and has a profound impact on our consciences, produces emotion, and turns into artwork.
