Dani Umpi: Obra Consciente
Xippas is pleased to present Obra Consciente by Dani Umpi in Punta del Este.
The exhibition focuses on a new series of big format collages Cavernas, a composition work of colours the artist has been developing recently. Since the beginning of his career, Dani Umpi has positioned himself in the space of the buffoon, the freak, the jester. His work covers different levels and planes that mix, as does person and character, artist and creation. His works reveal a particular dynamic between esoteric symbology and images referring to current popular culture and mass consumption, which when contextualized, produce a contemporary pop language of the 21st century. Umpi blends the sacred with the profane, intuition with speculation, the banal with the transcendent, superficiality with the abyss. The Jester, an opposing and complementary figure to the Master, creates symbolic works, proposes transcendent reflections.
The realization of the works is compulsive, obsessive, accumulative, almost cathartic, leaving nothing to chance. The chaos or the apparent informality of his proposal,
is a field dominated by simple archetypes, numbers, geometric shapes and colors. The works are cosmogonies formed by political discourses and quantum quotations, systems where the symbol can do more than the aesthetics, than the artist.
Xippas is pleased to present Obra Consciente by Dani Umpi in Punta del Este.
The exhibition focuses on a new series of big format collages Cavernas, a composition work of colours the artist has been developing recently. Since the beginning of his career, Dani Umpi has positioned himself in the space of the buffoon, the freak, the jester. His work covers different levels and planes that mix, as does person and character, artist and creation. His works reveal a particular dynamic between esoteric symbology and images referring to current popular culture and mass consumption, which when contextualized, produce a contemporary pop language of the 21st century. Umpi blends the sacred with the profane, intuition with speculation, the banal with the transcendent, superficiality with the abyss. The Jester, an opposing and complementary figure to the Master, creates symbolic works, proposes transcendent reflections.
The realization of the works is compulsive, obsessive, accumulative, almost cathartic, leaving nothing to chance. The chaos or the apparent informality of his proposal,
is a field dominated by simple archetypes, numbers, geometric shapes and colors. The works are cosmogonies formed by political discourses and quantum quotations, systems where the symbol can do more than the aesthetics, than the artist.
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