Jaime Gili Venezuelan, b. 1972
Jaime Gili has been living and working in the United Kingdom since 1996. In 1998, Gili obtained his MA from the Royal College of Art in London, and, in 2001, completed a PhD in Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona, Spain.
Gili belongs to a generation of Venezuelan artists who necessarily continue to examine the place of their practice within their inheritance of one of the most interesting Modernist movements in Latin America. In the 1950s, architects like Carlos Raúl Villanueva encouraged Venezuelan artists to redefine public space by integrating modern architecture and visual arts. The following generations of artists grew in the midst of this coalescence. In the words of Adrian Locke, Chief Curator of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, “Like Alejandro Otero (1921-1990), Carlos Cruz-Diez (1923-2019) and César Paternosto (b.1931) before him, Gili responds to the space in which he places his work. The surrounding architecture, whether internal and external, is a fundamental consideration.”
Gili has developed a unique style that represents a highly distinctive point of convergence between a specific inherited European modernism interlaced with Venezuela’s past historical modernism, and the current affairs. Aware that abstract painting cannot place current reality as such on to the canvas - for instance, the reality of protests and the disintegration of democracy - Gili takes on these issues through their tempo and the painting’s own slow process of becoming. Thus, gradually— and looking within its own limitations, Gili’s abstract paintings attempt to bridge the voids of time and space, the final message being one of a positive future.
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Jaime Gili
Loop 17 Feb - 18 Mar 2022It is with great pleasure that we announce Loop, Jaime Gili's second solo exhibition with Cecilia Brunson Projects. As Adrian Locke, Chief Curator of The Royal Academy of Arts, notes...Read more -
Artwork In Focus
Jaime Gili: Zelada 3 Jun - 31 Jul 2020Cecilia Brunson Projects presents Artwork In Focus, an online series shining a spotlight on key artworks from our gallery artists. For this Artwork In Focus, we are pleased to present...Read more -
Group Show
Contagio [CONTAGION] 17 Jan - 6 Mar 2020Cecilia Brunson Projects (CBP) is delighted to start 2020 with a Latin American group exhibition, Contagio, in our Bermondsey main gallery space. Artist Jaime Gili curates this exhibition that brings...Read more -
Jaime Gili
Guarimba 18 Feb - 18 Mar 2017“Painting, for me, often means engaging in an endless succession of quests and discoveries that eventually become fixed” Jaime Gili Gili belongs to an extraordinary generation of Venezuelan artists who...Read more
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'Jaime Gili : Loop'
The London Magazine, February 16, 2022 -
“Contagio”
Lorena Muñoz-Alonso , Art Agenda , March 4, 2020 -
Contagio
Kiki Mazzucchelli, Artishock, February 7, 2020 -
Contagio: Cecilia Brunson Projects
Rebecca Geldard, Apple and Hat , January 31, 2020 -
Jaime Gili: Utopia Has Its Own Edge
Federico Rosa , Culture Trip , January 26, 2016 -
Jaime Gili Interview with Pablo Leon de La Barra
Pablo Leon de La Barra , Centre for the Aesthetic Revolution , October 12, 2012 -
Jaime Gili, Comma
Barry Schwabsky, Bloomberg Space, July 3, 2009
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Interview
Jaime Gili : Loop February 16, 2022Jaime is interviewed by London Magazine (est. 1732) ahead of his opening at Cecilia Brunson Projects Find out more hereRead more -
Artwork In Focus
Jaime Gili, Zelada June 2, 2020Cecilia Brunson Projects presents Artwork In Focus, an online series shining a spotlight on key artworks from our gallery artists. For this Artwork In Focus,...Read more -
Exhibition
Jaime Gili at the Summer exhibition at the Royal Academy June 4, 2019The painting by Jaime Gili shown at this year's Summer exhibition at the Royal Academy, has a title in two parts reflecting that the painting...Read more