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Jaime Gili, Zelada, 2008, wool, silk and artificial silk tapestry, 2.5 x 2.14 m

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Cecilia Brunson Projects presents Artwork In Focus, an online series shining a spotlight on key artworks from our gallery artists.

For this Artwork In Focus, we are pleased to present Jaime Gili’s hand-woven tapestry, Zelada, 2008 (wool, silk and artificial silk tapestry, 2.5 x 2.14 m).

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Image: Taken from the catalogue of Demons, Yarns & Tales, James Cohan Gallery, 2010.

The London-based art organization, Banners of Persuasion, commissioned Gili, along with Gary Hume, Beatriz Milhazes, Grayson Perry and Kara Walker to design a tapestry, a medium foreign to his or her usual practice.

This collection of tapestries was then exhibited in 2008 at The Dairy, London and Miami Basel before travelling to James Cohan Gallery in 2010 for the exhibition, Demons, Yarns & Tales: Tapestries by Contemporary Artists.
Image: Taken from the catalogue of Demons, Yarns & Tales, James Cohan Gallery, 2010.

Demons, Yarns & Tales invited viewers to re-think and re-address this rich and complex historical medium in the realm of contemporary art practice.

As Gili explained, 'I had in mind the tapestries that Goya made for the king of Spain. They are very beautiful – much lighter in subject than his [Goya’s] paintings. Remembering Goya, I made a painting with the correct proportions. A lot of decisions had to made in terms of translating it from one medium to another’.
Image: Detail of Jaime Gili, Zelada, 2008, wool, silk and artificial silk tapestry, 2.5 x 2.14 m

Confronting the challenge of working in an unfamiliar territory, Gili translated his abstract language of painting into silk, wool and hand-woven stitch.

Through shards of colour that slice through the canvas, Zelada has a scale and vitality that seems to explode beyond the tapestry’s edges.
Image: Taken from the catalogue of Demons, Yarns & Tales, James Cohan Gallery, 2010.

Gili grew up in Caracas, where in the 1950s international modernism flourished and artists and architects redefined public space by integrating modern architecture and visual arts.

Following this tradition, Gili has developed the abstract language of the mid-20th century into contemporary painting, and his work has been contextualised as a revision of Latin American abstraction. Gili's work is, in the words of the curator Jesús Fuenmayor, 'the most relevant body of abstract-geometric pictorial work of his generation'.
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Artwork In Focus

Cecilia Brunson Projects presents Artwork In Focus, an online series shining a spotlight on key artworks from our gallery artists.

For this Artwork In Focus, we are pleased to present Jaime Gili’s hand-woven tapestry, Zelada, 2008 (wool, silk and artificial silk tapestry, 2.5 x 2.14 m).

Scroll down to find out more.

Artwork Video

Featured Artwork

About the Artwork

The London-based art organization, Banners of Persuasion, commissioned Gili, along with Gary Hume, Beatriz Milhazes, Grayson Perry and Kara Walker to design a tapestry, a medium foreign to his or her usual practice.

This collection of tapestries was then exhibited in 2008 at The Dairy, London and Miami Basel before travelling to James Cohan Gallery in 2010 for the exhibition, Demons, Yarns & Tales: Tapestries by Contemporary Artists.

Demons, Yarns & Tales invited viewers to re-think and re-address this rich and complex historical medium in the realm of contemporary art practice.

Confronting the challenge of working in an unfamiliar territory, Gili translated his abstract language of painting into silk, wool and hand-woven stitch.

Through shards of colour that slice through the canvas, Zelada has a scale and vitality that seems to explode beyond the tapestry’s edges.

Gili grew up in Caracas, where in the 1950s international modernism flourished and artists and architects redefined public space by integrating modern architecture and visual arts.

To know more about the available artworks of this artist, please

contact us at assistant@ceciliabrunsonprojects.com

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