123
Triangles (2009)
Enamel on paper
29,6 x 20,8 cm (each)
123
Sandwich (2009)
Enamel on paper
29,6 x 20,8 cm
123
Azul-Rojo (2009)
Enamel on paper
20,8 x 29,6 cm
123
Girl (2011)
Enamel on wood
83 x 38 x 4,7 cm
123
MasterCard (2010)
Enamel on wood
22 x 34 x 3 cm
123
Untitled (2011)
Enamel on paper
70 x 51 cm
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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