Jorge Cabieses

The work of Jorge Cabieses takes as its starting point the merging of diverse elements of Peruvian popular culture that the artist fuses and reinterprets in a neo-pop key. With a plastic resolution close to American concretism, Russian constructivism and the Bauhaus, Cabieses constructs the pictorial field as a diagram: a schematic representation of information. Against the tradition of figuration, the artist resorts to a hard geometry far removed from representation. Against a certain tradition of geometric abstraction, the works do not seek to invoke a world of ideal forms detached from the earthly, and rather find references in multiple visual codes. The “aesthetic of the diagram” proposed by the artist entails a commitment to find a form of agreement between very dissimilar concepts of the image (such as icon, shape, symbol, etc.) and its different horizons (figurative, abstract, encrypted, etc. ) to seek to gather its vast power and possibility.