Kiko Pérez
28 January - 10 March 2012 | Bourouina Gallery
Kiko Pérez has a sharpened eye for forms. His geometric compositions, including murals, assemblies of wooden strips or layers of enamel on delicate paper, emerge from an emotional process in which he makes formal aspects of everyday life his own. The simplification and the rhythmic variation of the geometric motif is part of his formal investigation. He removes the forms from their initial references. By displacing and translating them, Pérez loosens the stereotypes of prevailing aesthetic premises in the history of the modern age and turns their values upside down.
Though the allusion to minimalism would appear inevitable, Pérez works in fact exude an unusual warmth - in stark contrast to the autonomous minimalistic form: they are cultural shapes based on other cultural shapes on the everyday landscape. A specific materiality and hand-crafted texture is emphasized and indicates a sense of imperfection - in itself unusual for the representation of geometrical figures - and marks an important characteristic his work. Each presentation is an opportunity to reactivate the work in a formalization that is both specific and provisional. By means of a process of edition, the parts are reordered in relation to each other as well as the context in which they are shown.
Kiko Pérez - BIOGRAPHY
Born 1982 in Vigo (Pontevedra), Spain
Currently lives an works in Madrid
Education
2011
Life drawing (course) | St. Martin's College of Art, London, UK
Printmaking (course) | Chelsea College, London, UK
2009
Seminar "Tumulto y medida en la pintura", BilbaoArte
2008
Graduate in Fine Arts, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain
2005
Lupa e Iman | Workshop about artistic practice from painting experience, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
2001-04
Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain
Solo Exhibitions
2012
Bourouina Gallery, Berlin
2011
hola-por favor-gracias-hasta luego | Galeria Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid, Spain
Chispas | New Positions, Art Cologne, Cologne
Cohetes (with Elena Aitzkoa) | Torre de Ariz, Basauri, Spain
2010
Kiko Pérez (with I-aki Imaz) | Galeria Carreras Moegica, Bilbao, Spain
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2010
Antes que Todo/Before Everything | CA2M, Madrid, Spain
Bienal de Pontevedra | Intervention in Villagarc'a de Arousa, Spain
Pintura? Cuatro respuestas: Secundino Hernandez, nanon 4814, Kiko Pérez | Galeria Adhoc, Vigo, Spain
En la cuerda floja | Galeria Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrin, Spain
2009
Quize sea un buen momento para empezar otra vez | Intervention in Anti Liburudenda, Bilbao, Spain
Ertibil Bizkaia 09 | Obra seleccionada, Bilbao, Spain
2008
Gure Artea 2008 | Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain
Rosa Parmy y Kiko Pérez | Lamono, Bilbao, Spain
Elena Aitzkoa, Lorea Alfaro, Nadia Barkate, June Crespo, Kiko Peréz | Galeria Carreras Moegica, Bilbao, Spain
2007
Txiripa | Campus Leioa, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain
Exhibition of Fine Art Students | Casa de Cultura Sanz Enea, Zarautz, Spain
Ertibil Bizkaia 07 | Obra seleccionada
2006
Urbanitas | MARCO, Vigo, Spain
2005
Lupa e Iman | Arteleku, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
Caldarte | Caldas de Reis, Pontevedra, Spain
2004
Aque Nada | Café Bizarre, Vigo
2003
Expomiccion | Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain
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