AZOCAR
Jaime Azocar is member of the European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Literature.Azocar was born on april 12, 1941 in Santiago de Chile. Azocar lives and works in Paris.
Azocar's painting pictures are a kind of desperate poetry, a strange way of dealing with distress by derision. For Azocar painting must show an extreme but under control violence. From colour to language, from chromatic transposition of situations and feelings to cultural implications and winks, Azocar work on new vision of the world.
Azocar - self portrait
" How to define my painting ? Some name it critical figuration, new figuration, new image, narrative figuration... Lots of words really whose responsibility I leave to critics and art audience. I would allow myself to be tempted to simply say:"ackowledgement"."
Azocar - by Jean-Jacques Lévèque:
Azocar is talking to us about nonsense... Azocar likes joking, telling in every detail sketches between hell's sight and some intellectual and codified public house theatre's gags. Death is an entertainment. Azocar always harks back to it, lingers over it ...
The stories Azocar is talking about are not taking on a one-way road forward. Azocar's painting pictures don't forced themselves upon us. They request us. And they stimulate imagination, letting everyone free play to go after. Incitement painting to the imaginary profusion.
Azocar - by Francis Parent :
What we "hear" best in Azocar's painting, is the "cry of colours" as Münch sayed, this famous "roaring of pure colour"...
What's more "thrilling" for the eye than this closeness, in Azocar's painting, of complementary colours; red next to green, blue next to orange, yellow next to violet ... ? But, moreover, with Azocar, it's the hair that is blue, a cow that is red, a sky that is yellow, a coffin that is green, etc.
E-mail: jaime.azocar@free.fr
Address 167, Bd Vincent Auriol 75013
Paris, France
Tel. 33-1-45-85-09-74