Joaquin Stacey-Calle
b. Quito, Ecuador; lives and works in Miami/ FL.
Joaquin Stacey-Calle was born in Quito, Ecuador, and lived there until he was 14 years old. He moved with his family to Miami in 2014 where his interest in art evolved from hobby to career. In 2018 he started his studies in fine arts at Florida International University with a focus on painting and video. He is expected to graduate in 2022 with a bachelor in Fine Arts, and a minor on Art History and Marketing.
His solo exhibition Ni ayer, Ni hoy, Ni mañana at The Cutting Gallery in Miramar, FL, just opened in March 2022.
Other group shows Joaquin has participated are: In Other Tongues at One World Gallery, in Miami, and Traveling the World at The In Art Gallery (Online) in 2021. Explore ‘Art Outside’ at The Bass Museum, in Miami Beach, FL and Art in The Time of Corona at Dab Art Gallery in Los Angeles, CA in 2020. Doral Contemporary Art Museum: Body + Memory + City in Miami, FL and in Photoalicante, in Alicante, Spain in 2019.
Joaquin Stacey-Calle
Nasceu em Quito, vive e trabalha em Miami.
Em 2014, Aos 14 anos, Joaquin Stacey-Calle se mudou de Quito com a sua família para Miami, onde seu interesse pela arte evoluiu de hobby para carreira. Em 2018 iniciou seus estudos em artes plásticas na Florida International University com foco em pintura e vídeo. Ele deve se formar em 2022 com bacharelado em artes plásticas e especialização em história da arte e marketing.
Exposições individuais: 2022, Ni ayer, Ni hoy, Ni mañana – The Cutting Gallery – Miami, Fl
Exposições em grupo: 2021, In Other Tongues – One World Gallery – Miami, Fl. 2021, Traveling the World – The In art Gallery – Online. 2021, Art of Duality – Castle of the Arts Gallery – Miami, Fl. 2020, Explore ‘Art Outside’ – The Bass Museum – Miami, Fl. 2020, Art in The Time of Corona – Dab Art. Gallery – Los Angeles, CA. 2019, Dorcam: Body + Memory + City – Dorcam – Miami, Fl. 2019, Body + Memory + City – Photoalicante Gallery -Alicante, Spain.
SÃO PAULO
Tratando de recordar, 2022
Oil on canvas covered with tarp
82 x 60 in
Joaquin Stacey-Calle deals directly with nostalgia, the fragility of memory, and how incredibly fastly time passes. In his work, he builds different narratives by recontextualizing images of his personal and family history to question and push what identity means. He explores the attachment to objects—especially physical photographs, which leads him to cover, erase, and destroy parts of the painting, sometimes the entire work. In Tratando de Recordar the viewer is invited to get extremely close to the painting displayed underneath a plastic tarp. This operation causes the person to see the work differently than if seen uncovered, forcing the viewer to get intimate with the artwork. This intimacy, however, comes only from a relationship with fragments and not with the entire scene portrayed in the painting. In memory, similar to the gesture of seeing only pieces of this painting, we can never capture the whole picture.
Tratando de recordar, 2022
Óleo sobre tela coberto com lona – 82 x 60 polegadas
O trabalho de Joaquin Stacey-Calle lida diretamente com a nostalgia, com a fragilidade da memória e com a rapidez com que o tempo pode passar. Em seu trabalho, ele constrói diferentes narrativas recontextualizando imagens de sua história pessoal e familiar para questionar e impulsionar o que significa identidade. Ele explora o apego a objetos – especialmente fotografias físicas, o que o leva a cobrir, apagar e destruir partes da pintura, às vezes a obra inteira. Em Tratando de Recordar o espectador é convidado a aproximar-se da pintura por baixo da lona plástica. Essa operação permite que a pessoa veja a obra de maneira totalmente diferente, obrigando o espectador a se familiarizar com a obra de arte. Essa intimidade, porém, advém apenas de uma relação com fragmentos e não com toda a cena retratada na pintura. Assim como o gesto captura os fragmentos da pintura, na memória nunca podemos capturar a imagem inteira.
