When Jose Lerma met the “reception of the good condé de Louis XIV” by Jean-Léon Gérôme at Musée d’Orsay in Paris, he awakened attracted by the figures behind the gang. Identified for his meticulous realism, Gérôme rendered these small characters with minimal brushes, a choice that has influenced the exercise of Lerma for greater than a decade.
Exaggeration of the uncommon high quality of the figures, Lerma (anterior) paints portraits in vast acrylic methods utilized with industrial brooms and instruments. The brand new works maintain the contrasts of the earlier elements, as a result of the well-defined strokes are slipped alongside the bachelor to type heavy, impast.
To Nino Mier Gallery in Brussels, the brand new solo exhibition of Lerma Bayamonesque presents the climax of its present type. The title refers to its development in Bayamón, Puerto Rico and the way we take into consideration the resemblance. Paining each actual and manufactured characters, the portraits confer with those that might in any other case be relegated to the background, undressing -only the resemblance to what’s wanted.
Vacilating between the figurative and summary, the compositions are what lerma refers back to the “abstract of a portrait … The summary painter in me is, particularly, attracted by sure individuals for particular traits that may be damaged right down to their minimal as painstable components: an expressive cowl, a hanging nostril, a particular type of lips”.
Bayamonesque It’s considered between April 14 and 17 in Brussels. Discover extra from Lerma on Instagram.
