Ocidente

In “Ocidente”, the second solo exhibition presented by Felipe Cohen (b. 1976) at Galeria Millan (his first one, “Lapse”, happened in 2013), the artist explores the landscape in art using elements of geometry and light.

In the series “Luz Partida” (“Broken Light”), for example, Cohen paints on wooden triangles with regular sizes, combining them to make elementary landscapes and creating, mostly, seas, mountains, suns and skies. These are “objectual” paintings, that look for a relation between the precision of geometry and the strong atmospheric character of the images, which is given, essentially, by the selection of colors (blue, brown, green, yellow) and by the perspective suggested by the diagonals of these pieces of wood in the shape of triangles, almost in a playful way.

On the other three works of the exhibition, titled “Ocaso #3” (“Sunset #3”), “Lago” (“Lake”) and “Ocidente” (“West”), the artist uses devices like showcases and shelves to relate different materials (wood, felt and glass) and geometrical shapes (circles, triangles, rectangles), searching for coincidences with natural phenomena of the terrestrial landscape.

Finally, Felipe Cohen presents an intervention in the gallery expository space, in which colorful paper confetti perfectly fit small holes, subtly deep in the gallery floor, an attempt to create, again, a paradoxical relation between the ideas of ephemerality and concreteness.