Javier Peláez
Subtitle: alto rendimiento = high performance
By: [edición y diseño = editing and design : Sofía Broid]
Contributors: Broid, Sofía, editor
Edition: Primera edición.
Publisher: Saenger Editores
Published: 2020
Place of publication: CDMX
Language: spa
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9786079834548
Subjects: Catalogs; Criticism and interpretation; Mexican Drawing; Mexican Painting; Realism in art; Dessin mexicain; Peinture mexicaine; Réalisme (Art); Realism (artistic form of expression)
Other titles: High performance; Alto rendimiento
Work titles: Works
Description: The book documents 15 years of artwork of Javier Peláez (Mexico City 1976), an artist focused mainly on hyperrealistic painting and drawing. His work explores the limits of reality and its representation. "Pelaez hones his art as a copyist by cultivating difficulty. He puts his talent to the test of the translucent, the reflection, the fold, the play on shadow that glass, water, mirrors, and other reflective materials -cellophane, aluminum foil, etc.- lends themselves to, exposing them to multiple deformations and painting them according to the whims of the light." --Page 8.
Notes: In Spanish and English
Table of contents: title: Javier Peláez o de la pintura como deporte de alto rendimiento = Javier Peláez or painting as a top-level sport / Michel Blancsubé; title: Javier Peláez: poéticas del lenguaje post-todo = Javier Peláez: poetics of the post-everything idiom / Shana Nys Dambrot; title: Sobre naturaleza indeterminada. Christian Barragán con Javier Peláez = On indeterminate nature. Javier Peláez interviewed by Christian Barragán.