Fundraising Auction Art Academy London - Timed
28 APRIL 2023 - 18 MAY 2023
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28. Juan Bolivar
Summer Nights (after van Doesburg)
Acrylic on canvas painting from 2018, reimagining a Theo van Doesburg 1924, lozenge painting.
64 x 64 cm (sides)
90 x 90 cm (diagonals)
Kindly donated by the artist.
ESTIMATE
£2,200 - 3,200
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About the Artist
Juan Bolivar is a Venezuelan born British artist and lecturer in Painting at the University of the Arts London. Bolivar graduated from Goldsmiths College in 2003. His work is included in The Government Art Collection, and selected for significant exhibitions such as New British Painting, John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton (2004), East International at Norwich School of Art (2007), Nanjing International (2015) where he was a prize winner, and has twice been a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner award (2001/2009). He is a contributor to Turps Magazine. Recent residencies and exhibitions include Macro Museum, Rome (2019), Bauhaus Museum, Dessau (2019) and Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (2021).
His paintings negotiate the tension between meaning and form. He combines elements from disparate sources to investigate hybridity, language and abstraction. Bolivar's work often re-enacts seminal cannons of modernist painting such as Kazimir Malevich's 'black square' or paintings from Malevich's late period; using this context of interpretation to create new meanings from the sublime to the ridiculous.
