Un Pedazo de Cielo, 2022, presents a contemplative constellation of geometric forms suspended within a circular field. Stars, crystalline structures and intricate motifs appear to coexist as fragments of an imagined celestial system, creating a visual rhythm between order, repetition and variation. The monochromatic treatment places emphasis on line, texture and structure, allowing each form to function almost as an independent sign within the composition. As an abstract painting, the work invites a reading that moves between cosmic imagery and constructed geometry, reflecting James Bonachea’s interest in giving material presence to speculative worlds and intangible ideas.
The theory of Heaven is a novelty that Plato introduced to philosophy. Inspired by this concept, the artist proposes a series of works where I imagine and recreate possible worlds only existing in ideas and materialized through art as an ideal means to fable and materialize dissimilar visions of a Platonic space.
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Abstract Painting - Un Pedazo de Cielo, 2022. By James Bonachea
Un pedazo de cielo, 2022
From The Series Plato’s Heaven
Soluble graphite on canvas
Dimensions:
Image size: 31.5 DM. in.
Frame size: 51.5 H x 40.5 W x 2 D in.
White wood frame
Bonachea studied at the Escuela Profesional de Artes Oscar Fernandez Morera, in Trinidad, Sancti Spíritus and the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana. He was part of the DUPP and Enema collectives, as well as Tania Bruguera’s Cátedra Arte de Conducta, in Havana. He has had several solo exhibitions in Cuba and Mexico, and he has participated in the Mercosul and Liverpool Biennials. From performance to drawing, his curiosity for revisiting the remote past has made him enter dialogues of historical vision and present condition of reality, giving as a result discursive forms that complement a universe of anachronic new meanings.
