tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16937128244197454492024-03-20T01:13:32.573-07:00jorge checoJorge Checohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04328845844664699851noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693712824419745449.post-71770605062330888432013-04-09T18:03:00.000-07:002013-04-09T18:03:27.769-07:00Estudios de mandarinas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Jorge Checohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04328845844664699851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693712824419745449.post-86484917991230536092012-06-10T12:18:00.000-07:002012-07-11T17:22:23.578-07:00Cuenco Taino II<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Cuenco Taino II"<br />
Oleo sobre lino<br />
12x16"<br />
2007<br />
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<strong>JORGE CHECO: AESTHETIC FORMULATIONS OF A LUMINOUS AND RATIONAL STILL LIFE PAINTER</strong><br />
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Abil Peralta Agüero<br />
Critic of Art and Curator<br />
Member of the International Association of Critics of Art, AICA-UNESCO and Secretary General of the Dominican Association of Critics of Art<br />
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Translated by Maximo Encarnacion<br />
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Faith is an inner bet that transcends time. It is the intemporality of doing. It is also the visible number of what is transitory and its perennity in time because the art that does not bear the mysterious seal of the communication of what is human, even being it an act of celebrating life, is doomed to an imminent death. On the other hand, if it bears the signs of what is transcendental, even having being created as a phenomenon of the denial of its own existence, it will transcend and will break the walls of history the way it happened with the enigmatic artefacts and objects of creation of the Dadaists, who, as part of their aesthetic-philosophical-ideological Manifesto, bet the whole artistic arsenal created by the artists grouped together in that trend, on the signification of non-art, provoking, on the contrary, in the course of history, the most defensible fundamentals for all that has been the philosophical-psychological thinking that is directly related to the concept of modern art.<br />
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As I look at the works of the Dominican artist, Jorge Checo, I think of painting as a ritual-intemporal act, as an outstretched entity of the being an artist, but not as an object of creation that proposes and interacts with time and visible space departing from a particular thematic formulation founded on the still life painting genre, as it is his case. Why? Because his aesthetic thought is not defined by the normative reasoning of the exterior spectacle, on which minor art bets in general. As a creating artist, however, his painting, in spite of the linguistic-visual codes that support it, is conceived as a spiritual event that emerges from his own reason. Being his faith attached to painting as a means-medium and to the quality of the profession as a reason for honesty, Jorge Checo feels he travels through non decadent historical paths. The same way, in recent years, some postmodern aestheticians and thinkers, have referred to painting as an expression which is not adjusted to dynamics and economic, cultural, social, or political dialectics. Checo, departing from still life on the table, associates his art to one of the most antique aesthetic expressions recorded by the universal artistic tradition.<br />
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Not only the conceptual proposal of the representation of foods as a celebration of life, disposed-served on the table under the attention of the participatory look dates from the extraordinary mystic formulation of “The Holly Supper” (1495-1498) by Leonardo Da Vinci, but also there was an iconographic approximation that was less transcendental in terms of artistic-theological substantiation that had been produced with “The Last Supper” (1445-1450) by Andrea del Castagno which is in the Santa Apolonia Convent in Florence, Italy. <br />
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It is observed that, as a strictly artistic-mystic variant, in the work of Leonardo, the visual sense makes the mystic order of the foods on the table prevail, but on the contrary, in the piece by Andrea del Castagno, the foods are not emphasized in order to concede artistic supremacy to the modelling of the human figure expressed in the figure of Jesus Christ and his apostles.<br />
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¿How can we deny, then, the omnipresence of the foods in art due to they are an essential part of an entity that is integrated in the mere genetics in human existence? Foods are part of a celebration of nature and life; and thus the artist, Jorge Checo has structured it in the language of his painting, exactly the same way its antique periods such as the Romanic, it is represented by the Beyaux Tapestry, installed in the Beyaux Cathedral in France.<br />
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The validity of still life painting as a resource of aesthetic expression has been kept along the whole historical evolution of Western painting, and it is assumed as aesthetic thinking and a visual word by artists of such dimensions as Juan Sanchez Cotan, “Bodegón del Cardo” (“Still Life of the Thistle”), 1903; Frans Zinder, “Bodegón con Sirvienta” (“Still Life with Maid”), 1836; Francisco de Zurbarán, “Naturaleza Muerta con Naranjas y Rosa” (“Still Life with Oranges and Rose”), 1633; Chardin, “La Raya” (“The Ray”), 1728; Vincent Van Gogh, “Florero con 14 Girasoles” (“Vase with 14 Sunflowers”), 1888; Paul Cezanne, “Naturaleza Muerta con Cesta” (“Still Life with Basket”), 1888-89; up to the rationalist proposals with a cubist structure that Pablo Picasso and Juan Gris proposed us.<br />
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In Holland, the forerunning scenery of still life painting as an aesthetic and conceptual expression and manifestation meant a transcendental historical event. Culturally speaking, in the said country, it reached the category of superior language due to its social, ideological, and cultural meaning for it was the painting of a genre directly related to the social ordering of the aristocracy. In this type of painting, great still life artists such as Pieter Claesz, Jan de Heen, and Jean Batiste Oudry stand out.<br />
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Still life painting is an aesthetic-sociological phenomenon that extended up to the France of the XVIII century and up to England due to the iconographic typiphication that historiography had been assigning to it along its historical evolution as a modelling aesthetic means with a high sociologic-psychological value within the signet repertoire held by circles of power.<br />
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Jorge Checo`s works reveal a rediscovery of painting as a possible substance for the psychological stimulation of the senses: sight, taste, smell, touch, and sounds of nature expressed in fruits and in objects grouped together or individualized on the clothing surface. There is the mystery of the seducing capacity of sight. There is the secret of the visual temptation that summons the intellectual memory, provoking the transcendence of this artistic genre, which constitutes a phenomenon that, associated to the exceptional quality of its production, assumes the challenges of the art that is exhibited as an agent of change in the postmodern present times.<br />
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The rigor of the compositional sketches of Jorge Checo’s paintings tells of the condensation of visual representation. Checo does not intend to found nature in his art. He assumes it in each of his canvasses. He takes possession of its mystic and aesthetic sense and celebrates it with us and before us, as offerings of memory, as a calculator of beauty. As a thinker, in clear tune with the most advanced philosophy of present times who bets on the life of the planet by celebrating the enigma and materiality of nature, he speaks the language of the most radical ecologists, formulating an expositive-non pathetic-but-symbolic-reflexive naturalism.<br />
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He obtains artistic accuracy through a composition that denies the classic modulation, approaching, without reaching the limits of compositional anarchy, formulations that are close to the memoristic orderings of archaeology. Above all this, when in the rational sense of his poetics, he knows how to associate fruits and objects of our rural-agricultural tradition with conceptual rigor and semantics. Or else, interrelating vanitas elements subtly with the almost-esoteric purpose of meaning the momentariness of mere life contrary to the perennity of nature in spite of the damage and challenges to which, daily, the hand of progress, since ancient times, has been submitting it. The canvasses of this Dominican artist are a compositional kingdom where textual excellence and the clean and sedative brushstroke with sensual rhythm prevail. He is the forger of a sensible volumetry that assimilates light as a manifestation of great aesthetic value and splendour, not as a forced exposure within the compositional system of his paintings. Checo assigns the design of his works a rational architectural proposal in which the fantasy provided by his grammar of color stresses the value of nature in its mystic sense. This is always associated to art as a pantheist extension of its own entity-subject of divine creation as it is well recorded by aesthetician and historians of art from ancient times to the present. Above all, from the domain and the look of those who still have eyes to see and feel the marvel, the fantasy, and the inner joy that the visual corpus of good painting has always, always provided.<br />
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<br />Jorge Checohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04328845844664699851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693712824419745449.post-61721948474659703232012-06-10T12:07:00.000-07:002012-07-11T17:23:11.456-07:00Cuenco Taino<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Cuenco Taino"<br />
Oleo sobre lino<br />
9x14"<br />
2012<br />
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<strong>JORGE CHECO AND THE MAGIC OF EVERYDAY OBJECTS</strong><br />
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By Gamal Michelén<br />
Member of ADCA-AICA<br />
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Translated by Maximo Encarnacion<br />
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We live in a hallucinatory universe where we can experience the bleak sensation of positioning ourselves before the vastness of space with its galaxies and systems or place ourselves under the dark canopy we call sky and contemplate absorbedly a starry night. The same one that made Neruda feel that the absence of the beloved woman made her more immense; and also, we can marvel with the perfection of a rose, a snail, or the simple leaf of a herb like the one Whitmann baptized as “the child of creation.”<br />
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If we still keep the capacity of being amazed in spite of everyday tedium and the hurry that modern life imposes on us, we have to reach to the conclusion that God is an artist who has placed us in a spectacular creation and that he has given us the creative impetus that helps us to do what we call art. That is to say, the bungling that transcends what is utilitarian and delights itself in the spiritual pleasure of doing art for the sake of art.<br />
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Since ancient times, the elements of nature have been an inspiration for artists. That is why, in the Franco-Cantabrian zone, we find the richness of rupestrian paintings which, apart from the conjectures set forth about their motivations by the history of art critics, let us see an intelligent community full of that creative impetus and that represented their environment in those animals that provided them with leather for the cold weather and food for their subsistence.<br />
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Contemporary art, at times, is inspired in the creation that surrounds us, in those elements that belong in our everyday life like a rich source of materials that evolve into art. Not only the affirmation of Picasso, which states that we can never represent nature exactly the way it is, is true, but also that it becomes an excuse to make a composition. And a big part of the magic in painting lies in the placement of elements. For that reason, for Cezanne, an apple or an orange in a still life was just a motivation to place a circle. This way, he became the forerunner of cubism, which reduced the shapes to their simple geometry.<br />
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Musically speaking, an adequate composition makes sense when the sounds are arranged appropriately in tempo. That is why we do not call it noise, but music. Even in poetry, we dare to state that its magic lies more in the arrangement of words better than in the mere meaning.<br />
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When contemplating Jorge Checo's work, we expose ourselves to a painting of excellent invoicing with respect to its cleanliness, the perfection of the objects represented, and the care for the volumetry of objects; but above all this, the artist’s concern for the composition of the elements that constitute the painting calls our attention.<br />
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Objects of everyday use acquire a special value and become the suitable excuse when Checo places them creatively and with daring freedom on canvas, but at the same time, without disrupting the sense of harmony and balance, which makes the work produce emotional delight in the person who looks at it.<br />
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It seems as if a sort of complicity were produced among the fruits, tubers, containers, mantles, and baskets in order to engender a true work of art assembled with simple and everyday life themes such as a truncated cassava torte. In fact, this subject matter makes us observe a raggedly Dominican painting in which the artist is affected by what surrounds us daily, showing, this way, a sensibility towards those things that we see commonly, but that, all of a sudden, acquire a special value in those canvases. The artist attempts to stimulate us in the valuation of what we have, having us to reinterpret the world of the things that surround us and assigning them a special meaning.<br />
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In this artist’s painting, we perceive a special dedication in the harmonic combination of three elements: the lines, which provide sense of direction; the mass, which provides a sense of balance in the relationship of one element with the others; and the tones, which refer to the higher or lower luminosity of the objects that are represented. About this last element, we can point out his care for light, taking into consideration that it is a fundamental part in a well structured work.<br />
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We stay, then, as spectators before the challenge of contemplating these pieces and let an emotional alliance be established among the universes that dwell trapped in the mind of the artist and the visual judgment which is stimulated when Jorge Checo gives us the opportunity to expose ourselves to these excellent paintings.<br />
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<br />Jorge Checohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04328845844664699851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693712824419745449.post-52844627180263096852012-06-10T07:07:00.000-07:002012-07-11T17:24:03.665-07:00Cacharros<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Cacharros"<br />
Oleo sobre lino<br />
20x24"<br />
2011<br />
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<strong>THE CARIBBEAN STILL LIFE PAINTINGS BY JORGE CHECO</strong><br />
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By José Antonio Pérez Ruíz<br />
Puerto Rico 2007<br />
Translated by Maximo Encarnacion<br />
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The Centro de Arte Espinal presents a new collection of Checo´s still life paintings. His hyperrealist style, which is tinged by a verism that derives from a special vision, is stressed. The subtleness of his brushstrokes brings towards our eyes agricultural products in a state of perfect ripeness. Each piece constitutes an acknowledgement to the diverse productivity of the land, just as each presentation seems to be inhaled in utopian environments. He exalts the goodness of the fruits and vegetables that complement the Creole table. In other occasions, he concentrates his work in the tools that are indispensable for their processing; in those cases, their verisimilitude acquires strong accents of immediacy.<br />
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Jorje Checo is a gifted draftsman and an excellent colorist. His ample domain of both disciplines is an indispensable attribute in the painting that transcends. The power of attraction of his canvass comes from the accuracy with which he appeals to what is sensory and the strength that his classic lines fix in our minds. It is necessary to point out that in the compositional aspect, his rapprochements are impeccable. Formats with pyramidal organization prevail in his realizations. Other times, he organizes them in angles as if they formed imaginary triangles which permit our look to slide rhythmically over the surface. It is evident that the rhythm in the ocular movement of the spectators is ruled by the artist.<br />
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In many occasions, the presence of tablecloths is used by Checo on purpose. For he knows how to play with the alterations of lights and shadows provoked by the folds. These agitate the optics and, in this way, inject mobile touches that move like surges that act under the rigidity of the integrative elements in each work. Another aspect he takes care of when conceiving each piece is the quality of the textures in the main agents. This fact permits him move the desires of the spectator. The long list of items that serve him as models, constitute a stock of nutrients, whose cultivation requires care. His work constitutes a permanent message about how much we can loose if we drop our guard on the efforts for keeping the ecological balance.<br />
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Jorge Checo brings up temporary affairs to public concern. Thus, he indicates the human needs of all times. For this reason, the still life painting is what we call a simple painting of genre, which is valid through history. The presence of the delights that spring up from our lands tells us about the unlimited potential of the Caribbean soils. It is important to note that art, in each culture, has left material and artistic evidence of their diet. We cannot forget that the primitive man accompanied his dead people with the tools and the necessary nutrients to undertake a new life with ultra-worldly characteristics. In the Babylonian representations and in the hieroglyphics in the pyramids of Egypt, there are processional representations of characters that offer foods to the pharaoh and his gods. In all epochs, they have recognized the personal, social, economic, politic, and spiritual importance of the table for human development.<br />
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The Caribbean still life paintings conceived by Jorge Checo are typical in the Caribbean region. In lands where there are not climatic limits for crops. These paintings become conceptions that show a constant affluent of fruits, whose presence is not altered by seasonal changes. <br />
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<br />Jorge Checohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04328845844664699851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693712824419745449.post-21336586175443805932012-06-10T07:00:00.000-07:002012-07-11T17:25:43.297-07:00Ceramicas Tainas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Ceramicas Tainas"<br />
Oleo sobre lino<br />
15x40"<br />
2011<br />
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<strong>JORGE CHECO AND THE ART OF STILL LIFE PAINTING</strong><br />
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By Eduardo Marceles<br />
Critic of Art and independent curator established in New York City where he works as the Cultural Editor and Director of VIDA, the art an entertainment weekly publication for HOY newspaper<br />
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Translated by Maximo Encarnacion<br />
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Jorge Checo`s painting shows a determined exaltation of nature. His still life paintings with tropical fruits such as bananas, custard apples, coconuts, honey berries, papayas, avocados, or the appetizing watermelons and the delicious mangos are shelled on a table like coming out of a cornucopia of abundance. They are eloquent symbols of the fertility of the land, a generous mother who permits our subsistence in the middle of everyday vicissitudes. His compositions are a summary of balance and a singular taste for the vivid and iridescent colors of the Caribbean tropic transformed into humble tools for farming or in the ingredients for the preparation of an appetizing sancocho. In his work, one perceives a precise and careful draftsman who knows how to take advantage of the sensual roundness or the succulent pulps, and also of those rough or smooth peels of the fruits in a luminous atmosphere.<br />
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Furthermore, he assimilates the birds, be they the talkative small parrots or the modest hens from the backyard, which with their bright colors, provide a domestic dimension to his still life paintings. Of course, his works actualize a subject matter that has found the favour of numerous artists throughout the history of art. Still life painting dates from the most distant antiquity when artists, whose names have been lost through the passage of history, made the first illusionist compositions on the mosaics found in the ruins of Pompey, for example, in the full effect of the Roman Empire. This tradition disappears, as many others, in Medieval Times when just religious ideas prevailed, up to when, in the Renaissance, it emerges again, either as part of the decoration of a portrait or as an autonomous discipline divided by diverse trends.<br />
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Right after Luther`s Reform, in the XVI century, the moralist conception became popular in the countries of Northern Europe. This emphasized the so called vanitas vanitaes (Vanity of Vanities), and in visual arts this is translated into still life paintings, whose nucleus is a selected collection of objects for reminding the observer the brevity of life such as clocks, skulls, butterflies, books, candles that melt as life itself, or flowers as symbols of ephemeral beauty. The meaning of these still life paintings transcends its nominal value in order to insinuate a complex network of associations of religious nature such as bread and wine to represent the Eucharist, even though later, still life paintings that vindicate their decorative nature are developed in vases or in appetizing fruits, which emphasize the painter`s virtuosity.<br />
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According to the epoch, still life painting took different ways in the personal interpretation. In the XVII and XVIII centuries, for example, an ampler vision in kitchen interiors was developed in France by prominent painters like Oudry and his hunt animals, or Chardin in simple compositions of domestic utensils or ingredients for the preparation of foods. Contrary to the prodigal and lustful still life paintings of Flamencos, let us remember Pillen Claesz or Pieter Aertsen, the Spanish painters of the Baroque such as Sánchez Cotán or Zurbarán are examples of austerity, even though they have visual forcefulness in the handling of the still life painting theme.<br />
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The advent of the neoclassic period decayed, but for the academics of the XIX century and the beginnings of the XX century, it was a mere technical exercise. It was not so for the impressionists who exploited the luminous effects of color in vases overflowed with tulips, roses, sunflowers, abundant fruits like the famous apples of Cezanne, whose chromatic sensuality had a later influence in the development of Cubism. It is exactly in the full cubist peak, towards 1912, when Picasso enters in still life painting with a rattan background and sisal frame, which he systematizes later, together with George Braque in the so called “collage” , paper or pasted wastes, sometimes repainted on a canvas surface.<br />
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In a more recent epoch, during his whole life, the Italian painter, Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964) kept loyal to the simple still life paintings with bottles in sober tones close to the monochrome. In Colombia, it has been the favourite theme for acknowledged painters like Fernando Botero, David Manssur, and Dario Morales in sculpture. At the same time, in Puerto Rico, it was a recurrent theme in the painting of Francisco Oller and Cesteros, one of the most celebrated still life painters of fruit arrangements, bottles, teapots, and domestic elements.<br />
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In the “in front of the mirror” trend that was propelled by the Biennial of Venice in one of its recent versions, that is to say, the artistic manifestations, which in present times, reflect the art from the past. Now the idea is rejuvenating that valuable heritage that has always been an artistic patrimony of humankind, and Jorge Checo is one of its sharpest exponents in the Caribbean. In fact, we refer to a painter who delights himself with the lively colors of his land and wants to share the admiration that derives from his love for nature with the world. <br />
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<br />Jorge Checohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04328845844664699851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693712824419745449.post-76770565912260642762012-06-09T14:29:00.001-07:002012-07-11T17:25:18.862-07:00Santos de Palo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Santos de palo"<br />
Oleo sobre lino<br />
30x24"<br />
2011<br />
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<strong>THE COLOR OF WHAT IS TANGIBLE-CHECO´S STILL LIFE PAINTING</strong><br />
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By Dr. Laura Gil Fiallo<br />
President of ADCA<br />
Chairwoman of Investigations at the MAM<br />
Translated by Maximo Encarnacion<br />
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When Octavio Paz referred to Latin America as a continent where catholic people from the times of Pedro Ermitaño live together with men from the year 2000, he referred, doubtless, to all aspects of life and culture, and for that reason, to art. But he forgot to mention an aspect –the domain of what is intemporal. It is where artists like Jorge Checo move. He, with impeccable technique, not only recreates the topics of classic and baroque still life painting, but also assures, in addition, within what is illusory and what is tangible, a space in the land of nobody, where what is real and what is apparent intersect.<br />
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Checo is, all in all, a colorist, and the joy with which he rhymes the complementary colors in a still life painting with peppers in it is indescribable. Red, green, red again and green again. They succeed with the simple and irrefutable harmony with which the Circassian rhythm and the passage of the seasons of the year do it. This adapting to the sequential truth of the Cosmos is what provides Jorge Checo´s images the so relaxing and intemporal aspect, which takes us away from the hustle and bustle of the moment and provides us, with naturalness, with a moment of beauty and everyday ecstasy, in the very heart of simple living.<br />
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Simple abundance is recreated in the fruits of the land and their tangible and concrete naturalness. Barthes itself discovers still life painting in the baroque, but it also has some sort of fetish. Above all, in those tools of farming, which, in a moment of abandonment, fuse the strangeness that implies the descontextualization of the domain of what is pragmatic with the stop of the instant that is connatural to the aesthetic experience in order to enlighten a little bit the mystery of what is existent, of the simple magic of what is tangible, of color, and of light.<br />
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Profoundly sensual and pensive, the artist recreates himself in the details, and in the linear rhythms. Just the way Zurbaran and Michelangelo Caravaggio did centuries ago. But the fruits and the tools of the Antillean world, the cassava and the fruits from the Caribbean, in a sensual registry, obsessed by the turgid shapes, by the curve, by the intense and illuminated color, which strongly evokes the aroma, the restrained passion, the fertility and the joy with which the love for the land, for the soil that nourishes and supports us, whose conscience we are; as much as showing her and its fruits, we also identify with the way of islands, the luminous archipelago, which, like to her sons and daughters, she saw us and made us. <br />
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<br />Jorge Checohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04328845844664699851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693712824419745449.post-12477739965458848502010-10-26T07:07:00.000-07:002010-10-26T07:36:12.959-07:00Exposiciones<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieLG6gCIUdvQCyqvoJ1SZfh4ZxnoyQL3yZ8EqPKJdWK5ryTmq3fb4dwlgRwL4OjdRvyNhb4zoMSTrbpTv01gchOG-Swnvpkou_nx1cDF8ddKdqdFNzhUaezAGfe4_xLKLo8ICef8uRiLGi/s1600/jorge+checo+010.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 271px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5532363003269060450" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieLG6gCIUdvQCyqvoJ1SZfh4ZxnoyQL3yZ8EqPKJdWK5ryTmq3fb4dwlgRwL4OjdRvyNhb4zoMSTrbpTv01gchOG-Swnvpkou_nx1cDF8ddKdqdFNzhUaezAGfe4_xLKLo8ICef8uRiLGi/s320/jorge+checo+010.jpg" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHu4bYpD0LgMDaF4qAo-7JcSyzHhPniBM676RCgIAXpg5T_V-vB8eTlH4-nxUaUhPZ_oQPgLeS6udGo1-kJonSC_Ydo3wwGvlx-T4PtXjGP79ZxLesdbwT11WDRHX0aXei14MgCSoCKjfE/s1600/jorge+checo02.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; 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Jorge Checo (1968 - )<br />
Santo Domingo. Republica Dominicana. .<br />
Estudió dibujo y pintura en la Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes,<br />
de Santo Domingo 1983-1988.<br />
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Exposiciones Individuales:<br />
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2007-<br />
- Mérito a lo místico y estético, Galería de arte Espinal, San Juan, Pto. Rco<br />
- La Magia de los objetos cotidianos, lachman & Charrete Gallery, Panamá.<br />
2006- Colores Frutales de Santo Domingo, Instituto Italo-Latinoamericano, Roma,<br />
Italia.<br />
2004- Como ofrendas de la naturaleza. Galería Espinal, San Juan, Pto. Rco.<br />
2001- Entre Colores, Olores y Sabores. Galería Espinal, San Juan, Pto. Rco.<br />
2000- De Tierra Adentro. Galería de arte Espinal, San Juan, Pto. Rco<br />
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Exposiciones Colectivas selectas:<br />
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2012- Frutos de la tierra. Banco Agrícola de la República Dominicana. <br />
<br />
2011-Ecos de universos monocromáticos. Galeria de arte Berri, Sto Dgo. R.D.<br />
2011-Expo Concierto, La lluvia Antillana Galeria de arte Berri, Sto Dgo. R.D.<br />
2009- Caribe-tres, Expo- conjunta, José Morillo, Silvio Avila y Jorge Checo.<br />
De Bodden Galería, Sto. Dgo, R.D.<br />
Confluencias Galeria de arte Berri, Sto Dgo. R.D.<br />
El color del caribe antillano 2009, Mesa fine art. Sto Dgo. R.D.<br />
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2007- El placer de pintar, expo-conjunta con Minelys Ramírez, Casa de Tostado,<br />
Santo Domingo, R.D.<br />
- Matices del Caribe, 12 artistas dominicanos, Galería de arte Fco. Nader,<br />
Santo Domingo, R.D.<br />
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2004- Tres Expresiones del arte dominicano, Santiago Espinal, Roberto Flores y<br />
Jorge Checo. Museo Francisco Oller, Bayamón, Puerto Rico.<br />
-Eslabón Caribeño, 6 artistas puertorriqueños y dominicanos.<br />
Galería de arte Espinal, Viejo San Juan, Puerto Rico.<br />
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2002-Artistas Internacionales, Galería de arte Espinal, Viejo San Juan, Puerto Rico.<br />
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2001-Visiones, Gustavo Rodríguez, Aralis Vásquez y Jorge Checo.<br />
De Bodden Galería, Sto. Dgo, R.D.<br />
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2000-Unidos en el arte y en la lengua, Galería de arte Espinal, Viejo San Juan, Puerto<br />
Rico.<br />
- 4ta. Colectiva de artes plásticas dominicanas,<br />
Casa de la Cultura Dominicana, Miami, Florida, EE.UU.<br />
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1991- Muros de papel,<br />
Grupo Q-atro XXI, (Julio Valdez, Grecia Rivera, Ezequiel Taveras y Jorge Checo)<br />
Galeria Principal de Altos de Chavon, La Romana, R.D.<br />
<br />
1989- Presencias.<br />
Grupo Q-atro XXI, (Julio Valdez, Grecia Rivera, Ezequiel Taveras y Jorge Checo)<br />
Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. Viejo San Juan, Puerto Rico.<br />
-Reencuentro.<br />
Grupo Q-atro XXI, (Julio Valdez, Grecia Rivera, Ezequiel Taveras y Jorge Checo)<br />
Voluntariado de las Casas Reales. Casa Rodrigo de Bastidas, Sto. Dgo. R.D.<br />
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1988-Desmitificaciones.<br />
Grupo Q-atro XXI, (Julio Valdez, Grecia Rivera, Ezequiel Taveras y Jorge Checo)<br />
Galeria Del Instituto Dominico-Americano. Sto. Dgo. R.D.<br />
- Galeria Principal de Altos de Chavon, La Romana, R.D.<br />
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Bienales y Concursos:<br />
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2007-08 – 2da. Bienal Paleta de Níquel<br />
Museo Candido Bido. Plaza de la Cultura de Bonao, R.D.<br />
1996 -Concurso de Pintura, Casa de España, Sto. Dgo. R.D.<br />
1995 -Primer Concurso Nacional de Pintura Joven,<br />
Casa de Teatro, Sto. Dgo. R.D.<br />
1992- XVIII Bienal Nacional de Arte.<br />
Galería de Arte Moderno, Sto. Dgo. R.D.<br />
<br />
1990- XVII Bienal Nacional de Arte.<br />
Galería de Arte Moderno, Sto. Dgo. R.D.<br />
<br />
- XIV Concurso de arte E. León Jiménez.<br />
Centro de la Cultura, Santiago. R.D.<br />
<br />
1989- 2do. Festival Latino-americano de arte y cultura.<br />
Novos Valores del arte Latino-americano.<br />
Museo de Arte de Brasilia, Brasil.<br />
<br />
1987- XII Concurso de arte E. León Jiménez.<br />
Centro de la Cultura, Santiago. R.D.<br />
1986- Concurso de dibujo,<br />
Día mundial de la alimentación.<br />
FAO: Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la agricultura y la alimentación.<br />
Galería de Arte Moderno, Sto. Dgo. R.D.<br />
<br />
Premiaciones:<br />
<br />
1995- 2do. Premio de pintura<br />
Primer Concurso Nacional de Pintura Joven,<br />
Casa de Teatro, Sto. Dgo. R.D.<br />
1987- 1er. Premio de Dibujo.<br />
4to. Concurso juvenil de arte.<br />
Galeria Arawak, Sto. Dgo. R.D.<br />
1986- 1er. Premio dibujo.<br />
Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes de Santo Domingo. R.D. </div>Jorge Checohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04328845844664699851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693712824419745449.post-60439682939489056902010-10-15T14:26:00.003-07:002010-10-15T19:34:42.979-07:00Jorge Checo y el Arte del Bodegon<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRaKCbPq3BLKLPZy89xgS86yhXPtdOLpjLuVLHW-ACtLoBgwyzS0dbhM3fVWXDWSI6R3iPRDHj6rh_KlHWucypkfFuWIce4SjqxdCA_tSaLISnu56VEuAMj3osmnpCTjoetwHqyKDGsgGZ/s1600/zapotes.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 122px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5528465225142850082" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRaKCbPq3BLKLPZy89xgS86yhXPtdOLpjLuVLHW-ACtLoBgwyzS0dbhM3fVWXDWSI6R3iPRDHj6rh_KlHWucypkfFuWIce4SjqxdCA_tSaLISnu56VEuAMj3osmnpCTjoetwHqyKDGsgGZ/s320/zapotes.jpg" /></a><br /><div><br /><h1 style="MARGIN: 12pt 0cm 3pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"></span> </h1><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span></o:p></p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">La pintura de Jorge Checo manifiesta una decidida exaltación<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">de <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:personname st="on" productid="la naturaleza. Sus">la naturaleza. Sus</st1:personname><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>bodegones de frutas tropicales, bananos,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">guanábanas, cocos, quenepas, papayas, aguacates o las apetitosas<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">sandias y sabrosos mangos, se desgranan sobre una mesa como<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">salidos de una cornucopia de la abundancia, símbolos elocuentes<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">de la fertilidad de la tierra, madre generosa que nos permite la<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">subsistencia en medio de los avatares cotidianos. Sus composiciones son un compendio de equilibrio y un singular gusto por los colores vivos e iridiscentes del trópico antillano, transformados en humildes utensilios de labranza o en los ingredientes para la preparación de un apetitoso sancocho.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">En su obra se percibe al dibujante preciso y cuidadoso que sabe sacar provecho de las sensuales redondeces o las suculentas pulpas, así como de esas cáscaras rugosas o lisas de los frutos en una atmósfera luminosa.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">También asimila las aves, sean las locuaces cotorras o las modestas gallinas del patio trasero, que con su alegre colorido imprimen una dimensión domestica a sus bodegones.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">Por supuesto, sus obras actualizan una temática que ha gozado del favor de numerosos artistas a través de la historia del arte.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">La pintura de bodegones se remonta a la más lejana antigüedad cuando artistas cuyos nombres se han perdido en el tráfago de la historia, confeccionaron las primeras composiciones ilusionistas en los mosaicos hallados en las ruinas de Pompeya, por ejemplo, en plena vigencia del imperio romano. La tradición desaparece, como tantas otras, en <st1:personname st="on" productid="la Edad Media">la Edad Media</st1:personname> cuando solo primaban las inquietudes religiosa, hasta que emerge una vez mas en el Renacimiento, ya fuese como parte del decorado de un retrato o como una disciplina autónoma dividida en diversas tendendencias.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">A raíz de la Reforma de Lucero en el siglo XVI, se popularizo una concepción moralista en los países de Europa septentrional que enfatizaba la llamada vanitas vanitaes, vanidad de vanidades, y en las artes visuales se traduce en bodegones cuyo núcleo es un conjunto seleccionado de objetos para recordar al observador la fugacidad la vida, relojes, calaveras, mariposas, libros, velas, que se derriten como la vida misma, o flores como símbolos de belleza efímera. El significado de estos bodegones trasciende su valor nominal para insinuar una compleja red de asociaciones de índole religiosa como son el pan y el vino para representar la eucaristía, aunque más tarde se desarrollan los bodegones que reivindican su carácter decorativo en jarrones florales o en frutas apetitosa que enfatizan el virtuosismo del pintor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">El bodegón tomó diferentes caminos de interpretación personal de acuerdo con la época .En los siglos XVII y XVII, por ejemplo, se desarrolló en<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Francia una visión más amplia en interiores de cocina ejecutados por pintores tan destacados como Oudry con sus animales de caza, o Chardin en sencillas composiciones de utensilios domésticos o ingredientes para la preparación de alimentos. A diferencia de los pródigos y lujuriantes bodegones de los flamencos, recordemos a Pillen Claesz o Pieter Aertsen, los españoles del Barroco como Sánchez Cotán o Zurbarán son ejemplos de austeridad, aunque de contundencia visual en el manejo de su temática bodegonista.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">Si bien decayó con el advenimiento del periodo neoclásico, para los académicos del siglo XIX y principios del XX fue un mero ejercicio técnico, no así para los impresionistas que explotaron los efectos luminosos del color en floreros desbordados de tulipanes, rosas, girasoles, frutas en abundancia como las famosas manzanas de Cezanne cuya cromática sensualidad influyo en el posterior desarrollo del Cubismo. Es precisamente en pleno auge cubista hacia 1912, cuando Picasso incursiona en los bodegones con fondo de pajilla enmarcado por cabuya que después sistematiza junto con George Braque en el llamado ´´collage``, papeles o desechos encolados, a veces repintados, sobre la superficie del lienzo.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">En época más reciente el pintor italiano Giorgio Morandi 1890-1964 permaneció fiel toda su vida artística a los sencillos bodegones de botellas en tonos sobrios cercanos al monocromo. En Colombia ha sido el tema favorito de reconocidos pintores como Fernando Botero, David Manssur y Darío Morales en escultura; en tanto que en Puerto Rico fue un tema recurrente en la pintura de Francisco Oller y Cesteros, uno de los más celebres bodegonistas en arreglos de frutas, botellas, teteras y elementos domésticos.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">En la corriente ´´ante el espejo`` que impulsó la Bienal de Venecia en una de sus versiones recientes, es decir, las manifestaciones artísticas que en el presente reflejan el arte del pasado, ahora se trata de rejuvenecer esa valiosa herencia que ha sido siempre patrimonio artístico de la humanidad, y es Jorge Checo uno de sus más aguzados exponentes en el área del Caribe. En realidad se trata de un pintor que se deleita con los colores intensos de su tierra y quiere compartir con el mundo esa admiración que se deriva de su amor por la naturaleza.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16;"><o:p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span></o:p></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16;"><o:p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span></o:p></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16;"><o:p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span></o:p></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:16;">Eduardo</span></b><span style="font-size:16;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Marceles</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">Critico de arte y curador independiente radicado <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">en la ciudad de Nueva Cork donde se desempeña <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">como Editor Cultural y Director del semanario de arte<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">y entretenimiento VIDA del diario HOY.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div>Jorge Checohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04328845844664699851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693712824419745449.post-78105481892435449772010-10-15T14:26:00.002-07:002010-10-15T18:57:51.093-07:00Colores Frutales de Santo Domingo II<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdsFfVewWt2FCJ8Vr84ioRdaXdjjwBAkfLbGmG4yyTRXAHX45cTfvY9uiUqkoy7aEc5lB7knCCX3Di3UeRtkQsYh44Z-CKShsCDGj9_sXg5jF3Rid20TkIu0SO8NUZV7ZyMTl71MT5Zg1-/s1600/escanear0006.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; 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mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:9;"></span></b></p><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:9;">Santo Domingo.- </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:9;">Los pintores Dominicanos Jorge Checo, Silvio Ávila y José Morillo, abren al público su colectiva titulada “Caribe- Tres”, en la que ofrecen a los amantes de las artes plásticas, la oportunidad de contemplar los diferentes estilos de cada uno de estos tres artistas que comparten una misma generación y un singular respeto uno por la obra del otro.</span></p><br /><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:9;"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:9;">La colectiva Caribe-Tres, presentada en <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:personname productid="la Galer■a Bodden" st="on">la Galería Bodden</st1:personname>, consta de veintiún cuadros pintados en óleo sobre lienzo, donde cada uno de los artistas exponentes expresa su vínculo directo con la realidad que le rodea.<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:9;">Cada uno plasma en el lienzo una realidad distinta, unida al final con los colores y las líneas de la belleza subliminal del arte y la sensibilidad creadora que le caracteriza a cada artista en particular.</span></p><br /><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:9;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:9;">Estilos Jorge Checo es un dibujante innato y colorista excelente; su dominio en ambas disciplinas le permiten la creación de obras de arte con un gran poder de atracción a la vista que le contempla, por el nivel de realismo que logra con sus realizaciones piramidal.<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:9;"></span></p><br /><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:9;">Mientras que el realismo de Silvio Avila, produce una obra cargada de humor y poesía, que va entre el expresionismo y el surrealismo fantástico. En cada pintura de Avila se cuenta una historia casi narrativa dirigida a los niños, con los niños como elemento esencial, que llena de sensibilidad particular al que contempla.<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:9;"></span></p><br /><br /><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:9;">La obra de José Morillo, por su parte, plasma en su obra una historia de hadas, utilizando el sueño, donde no existen las leyes de la gravedad; donde animales, humanos y los astros se desconectan del mundo real. Morillo, utiliza su imaginación para plasmar en el lienzo un mundo fantástico, que lleva a quien contempla la obra a dejar volar su imaginación.</span></p></div></div>Jorge Checohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04328845844664699851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693712824419745449.post-35328926953396063382010-07-22T07:43:00.000-07:002010-07-22T08:44:15.889-07:00Colores Frutales de Santo Domingo<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiskv-o3_cUkVvk98LJE_ZU3qiRjQmmCs0pUkDuLXNyUG7lZVns_tuWrsW4QhMUIR3e83iXsssVSy0T0YJb_VswXzI_0qWbAeN0_-tTx76S9I3HF9ux80-AhRe-O5kT_Z_UkLI42ZzEfe8y/s1600/mangos.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496756249996540898" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 158px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiskv-o3_cUkVvk98LJE_ZU3qiRjQmmCs0pUkDuLXNyUG7lZVns_tuWrsW4QhMUIR3e83iXsssVSy0T0YJb_VswXzI_0qWbAeN0_-tTx76S9I3HF9ux80-AhRe-O5kT_Z_UkLI42ZzEfe8y/s320/mangos.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div> ´´ Colores Frutales de Santo Domingo’’ del pintor Jorge Checo<br /> Instituto Italo-Latino Americano, Palazzo Santacroce, Roma, Italia.<br /> 19 de Septiembre del 2006-09-29<br /><br /></div><div>El martes 19 de Septiembre del 2006 a las 6:00 p.m. fue inaugurada la exposición del<br />pintor Jorge Checo en el Instituto Italo-Latino Americano en Roma. La exposición<br />fue auspiciada por el Instituto Italo Americano, la Embajada de la República Dominicana ante la República Italiana, y por la Embajada de la República<br />Dominicana ante la Santa Sede.<br />Su Excelencia Rafael Marion-Landais, Embajador de la República Dominicana<br />ante la Santa Sede presentó al artista y su obra.<br />El pintor Jorge Checo nació en Santo Domingo, República Dominicana en el 1968.<br />Estudió en la Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes de Santo Domingo donde<br />obtuvo varios reconocimientos y premios. Desde el 1988 trabajó y expuso junto al<br />grupo Q-ATRO XXI. Residió en Nueva York desde el 1989 al 1991, donde estuvo<br />al contacto con las corrientes de vanguardia. Enseñó dibujo en el departamento de<br />Artes Liberales de la Universidad Iberoamericana de Santo Domingo. Ha tenido<br />varias exposiciones en su país de origen y en Puerto Rico.<br />Su obra es de gran vivacidad y luminosidad tipicamente caribeña, en la cual los colores<br />se presentan de modo sensual. En sus bodegones se evidencia el apego a su isla de<br />origen, donde la simplicidad del vivir cotidiano se da en la plena abundancia de la<br />variedad y del aroma de las frutas tropicales. La fruta en primer plano es fuertemente<br />acentuada como queriendo salir de los cuadros, haciendo sentir al espectador el deseo<br />de tomar y gustar la fruta, que a su vez se confunde con la que está dispersa<br />armónicamente en los salones de la exposición.<br />´´Colores Frutales de Santo Domingo´´ quedará abierta al público hasta el 4 de<br />Octubre del 2006. </div>Jorge Checohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04328845844664699851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693712824419745449.post-66614034514883316922007-11-25T13:32:00.000-08:002008-12-11T06:47:25.248-08:00Los bodegones caribeños de Jorge Checo<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidmClf8acEi3uZa6g_RNqVEMzUzigkeEBpWUmudULPYzOjbXFzno8TdKD4woL2Xsp0N84IxaloJETQ43axNG-WnKOFyMPA3opoSSwbL-hQPAvjYR-vnzeL-jIIx-2EmWI8okno9Z1Uno8g/s1600-h/cerezas.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5136894683050096466" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidmClf8acEi3uZa6g_RNqVEMzUzigkeEBpWUmudULPYzOjbXFzno8TdKD4woL2Xsp0N84IxaloJETQ43axNG-WnKOFyMPA3opoSSwbL-hQPAvjYR-vnzeL-jIIx-2EmWI8okno9Z1Uno8g/s320/cerezas.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkg9dZqe7vngU2FhjAolrzqnoYlt-4xhLI4bZq-ZNhqdDRsFEdB42_P2RdTdUmdfS-RkbuFRSTjrRm8GcQG2vhIKlUxHmecFy-VbX0RIsucA0gwTcjicppGX6hZbXFHUGKixzhq_bh4a35/s1600-h/P1010008.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5136894330862778178" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkg9dZqe7vngU2FhjAolrzqnoYlt-4xhLI4bZq-ZNhqdDRsFEdB42_P2RdTdUmdfS-RkbuFRSTjrRm8GcQG2vhIKlUxHmecFy-VbX0RIsucA0gwTcjicppGX6hZbXFHUGKixzhq_bh4a35/s320/P1010008.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div></div></div><br /><p>José Antonio Pérez Ruiz</p><p>Jorge Checo es un dibujante dotado y un colorista excelente. Su amplio dominio de ambas disciplinas es atributo indispensable a la pintura que trasciende.El poder de atracción de sus cuadros proviene del acierto con que apela a lo sensorial y la fortaleza que imprimen sus lineas clásicas. Es necesario señalar que en el aspecto composicional sus acercamientos son impecables. Predominan en sus realizaciones formatos cuya organizacion es piramidal, otras veces los organiza en ángulos como si formaran triángulos imaginarios que permiten que la mirada se deslice ritmicamente sobre la superficie. Resulta evidente que el compás del movimiento ocular de los contempladores es pautado por el artista.</p><p>En muchas ocasiones la presencia de manteles es empleada por Checo de manera intencional, pues sabe jugar con las alternaciones de luces y sombras provocados por los pliegues. Estos agitan la óptica e inyectan así toques moviles que se dezplazan como marejadas que actúan bajo la rigidez de los elementos integradores de cada obra.</p><p>Jorge Checo, trae a consideración publica asuntos atemporales pues indica las necesidades humanas de todos los tiempos. Por esa razón, el bodegon es lo que llamamos una pintura degenero, valida a lo largo de la historia. Las presencias de las delicias que brotan de nuestros suelos nos habla del potencial ilimitado de los terrenos antillanos.</p><p>Los bodegones antillanos concebidos por Jorge Checo son característicos de la región caribeña. En tierras donde no existen limites climáticos para las cosechas, estas pinturas se convierten en concepciones que evidencian afluentes constantes de frutos cuyas presencias no son alteradas por cambios estacionales.</p>Jorge Checohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04328845844664699851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693712824419745449.post-20700029282044731472007-11-25T12:45:00.000-08:002008-12-11T06:47:26.155-08:00La magia de los objetos cotidianos<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL_NvOyC3Zl2YgVJclB9sb1mZbdhTqBuRvvWAK_fd22laWohQWXKvEOFORXv_1CVy9-f83asWesQChjaC1y6aMmWgBtF_JR3lu3pp9QdqpeC_ys1SE7Z9rMRxy8zfm14iGg844H-WbQqNV/s1600-h/chinas.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5136883520430094098" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL_NvOyC3Zl2YgVJclB9sb1mZbdhTqBuRvvWAK_fd22laWohQWXKvEOFORXv_1CVy9-f83asWesQChjaC1y6aMmWgBtF_JR3lu3pp9QdqpeC_ys1SE7Z9rMRxy8zfm14iGg844H-WbQqNV/s320/chinas.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP0Obz2iT6EbrTdExC0qdIQ286FjeJUIE6SRjaBb5qFl04Vy6UFMhjTSeMAY-PZK5h0v4k_Mumrhj_SxILXxObopV8lH6ros_x92lUn7OnOjezy5W_tBEDKWaxGDVZM0Om18xF6EtrdIXS/s1600-h/P1010007.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5136883035098789634" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP0Obz2iT6EbrTdExC0qdIQ286FjeJUIE6SRjaBb5qFl04Vy6UFMhjTSeMAY-PZK5h0v4k_Mumrhj_SxILXxObopV8lH6ros_x92lUn7OnOjezy5W_tBEDKWaxGDVZM0Om18xF6EtrdIXS/s320/P1010007.JPG" border="0" /></a> </div><div>Gamal Michelen</div><div>miembro ADCA-AICA</div><div> </div><div>Al contemplar la obra de Jorge Checo nos exponemos a una pintura de</div><div>excelente facturación respecto de su limpieza, la perfección de los objetos representados</div><div>y el cuidado de la volumetría de las cosa; pero sobre todo, llama nuestra atención</div><div>la preocupación del artista por la composición de los elementos que</div><div>componen el cuadro.</div><div> </div><div>Objetos de uso cotidiano cobran un valor especial y se convierten en el pretexto</div><div>idóneo, cuando Checo los ubica de forma creativa dentro del lienzo con una libertad</div><div>osada, pero a su vez sin trastornar el sentido de la armonía y el equilibrio, que hace</div><div>que la obra produzca un deleita emocional en el que la contempla.</div><div> </div><div>Parece como si produjera una especie de complicidad entre las frutes, tubérculos, envases,</div><div>mantos y canastas para engendrar una verdadera obra de arte, ensambla con motivos </div><div>tan sencillos y cotidianos como una torta truncada de casabe. </div><div>De hecho esta temática nos hace observar una pintura rabiosamente dominicana,</div><div>donde el artista es afectado por lo que nos rodea a diario, mostrando así una </div><div>sencibilidad ante estas cosas que vemos comúnmente pero que de repente cobran</div><div>un valor especial en estos lienzos.</div><div>El pintor pretende estimular en nosotros la valoración de lo que tenemos, haciéndonos</div><div>reinterpretar el mundo de las cosas que nos circundan y asignándole un significado</div><div>especial.</div><div> </div><div>En la pintura de este artista percibimos una deificación especial en la combinación</div><div>armónica de tres elementos: las lineas, que dan sentido de dirección, las masas,</div><div>que dan sentido de equilibrio en su relación unas con otras y los tonos, que se refieren</div><div>a la mayor o menor luminosidad de los objetos representados; respecto de esta </div><div>ultima podemos destacar el cuidado que tiene con la luz, entendiendo que es parte</div><div>fundamental de una obra bien estructurada.<br /><br /></div><div></div>Jorge Checohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04328845844664699851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693712824419745449.post-14409206423892468902007-11-25T12:20:00.000-08:002008-12-11T06:47:26.333-08:00En la pintura de Jorge Checo esta el cariño<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKhO-TZLvRlH1b1Zc9KqlAZ73_YsekC0dZ4OfL5GUp6nVBvlGI_sJ3z1-QacTWIhu6rioA7rleMVr_mtslTU0hWroNa28Oe0POQRuS_JuMx2I7jWvfUz66b03mjdEyG5oV91U8oe7n2Y7L/s1600-h/melones+15x30.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5136876519633401586" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKhO-TZLvRlH1b1Zc9KqlAZ73_YsekC0dZ4OfL5GUp6nVBvlGI_sJ3z1-QacTWIhu6rioA7rleMVr_mtslTU0hWroNa28Oe0POQRuS_JuMx2I7jWvfUz66b03mjdEyG5oV91U8oe7n2Y7L/s320/melones+15x30.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div><br /><p>Rafael Marion-Landais</p><p>" Por detrás de la vivacidad y luminosidad caribeña del color de las pinturas de Jorge Checo está el cariño con que se presenta sus frutos, sus objetos... Hay en sus cuadros sencillez,respeto, fidelidad... En su trabajo todo luce simple. No hay excesos. Solo hay desborde de afectividad serena.</p><p>Todo artista crea o recrea, Jorge no hace ni lo uno ni lo otro; Checo admira y pinta lo que admira.Checo se enamora por así decirlo, de sus sujetos y los acepta tal como son: Con sus ligeras imperfeciones, con sus manchitas, con sus gotitas de agua, con sus hilillos casi desordenados,con el ligero sangrar de su jugo vital...</p><p>Su cariño lo lleva a presentar sus objetos lo mejor posible, cuida la composición, cuida las luces, se arriesga con la combinación de colores pero todo lo hace con veracidad, sin engaños, con sobriedad... así presenta sus elementos. Disfruta viendo las cosas con detenimiento minucioso, como si pretendiera absorber cada detalle de lo que observa.Como si quisiera respetar sus características más mínimas. Más que respeto, es fidelidad, es admiración...Es observación que linda con una manera mística de contemplar lo creado.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>Jorge Checohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04328845844664699851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693712824419745449.post-35239487964311181682007-11-25T11:49:00.000-08:002008-12-11T06:47:26.620-08:00El color de lo tangible-la pintura de bodegones de Jorge Checo<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkTmkSQdLML5ixN42di5b1fEK-8ggbi_fJVimVA9S3OBO5otu4lqwXasKypQwV3tCFPk2TzTH9EmteJC-JJ0qGQbpjc6svJLQJlYDb0Z9GkKvWHjQKUNKpOm5ZsaM7QbmtYTUk6MxlhEjS/s1600-h/ajos+12x24.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5136871863888852706" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkTmkSQdLML5ixN42di5b1fEK-8ggbi_fJVimVA9S3OBO5otu4lqwXasKypQwV3tCFPk2TzTH9EmteJC-JJ0qGQbpjc6svJLQJlYDb0Z9GkKvWHjQKUNKpOm5ZsaM7QbmtYTUk6MxlhEjS/s320/ajos+12x24.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Dra. Laura Gil Fiallo</div><div>presidenta de ADCA</div><div>Encargada de Investigaciones del MAM</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Cuando Octavio Paz se refirió a Iberoamerica como un continente donde conviven</div><div>católicos de la época de Pedro el ermitaño con hombres del año 2000 se refería,</div><div>sin lugar a dudas, a todos los aspectos de la vida y la cultura, y por tanto,</div><div>también al arte. Pero se le olvido mencionar un aspecto- el dominio de lo intemporal.</div><div>Allí es donde se mueven artistas como Jorge Checo, quien con técnica impecable</div><div>no solo recrea los tópicos del bodegon clásico y barroco, sino que se asegura, además, dentro</div><div>del universo de lo ilusorio y el de lo tangible, un espacio en la tierra de nadie</div><div>donde lo real y lo aparente se entrecruzan.</div><div></div><div>Checo es en todo sentido un colorista, y es indescriptible el gozo con que ritma los </div><div>complementarios en un sencillo bodegon de pimientos. El rojo, el verde, el rojo de nuevo,</div><div>y el verde otra vez, se suceden con la sencilla e irrefutable armonía con que lo hace</div><div>el ritmo circadiano y el paso de las estaciones del año.</div><div></div><div>Este adaptarse a la verdad secuencial del cosmos es lo que aporta a las imagenes</div><div>de Jorge Checo ese aspecto tan relajante e intemporal, que nos sustrae de los ajetreos del</div><div>momento, y nos aporta, con naturalidad, un momento de belleza y de éxtasis cotidiano,</div><div>en el corazón mismo del simple vivir.</div><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div>Jorge Checohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04328845844664699851noreply@blogger.com1