{"id":31213,"date":"2016-04-21T12:54:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T10:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=31213"},"modified":"2016-04-21T12:54:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T10:54:09","slug":"one-to-watch-nico-colon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/one-to-watch-nico-colon\/","title":{"rendered":"One to Watch: Nico Col\u00f3n"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nico Photo by Maria Fernanda Molins<\/p>\n

 
\n\u201cWhen I was in art school, making art with your hands or from a personal perspective was not popular,\u201d says mixed media artist Nico Col\u00f3n<\/a>, who moved to Mexico City in 2013 from his native San Francisco. \u201cI felt the need to challenge these assumptions, and being here has helped me create a mode of production of my own.\u201d
\nLiving in the Mexican capital, Col\u00f3n began to print impressions of large tropical leaves he found in flower markets onto linen. Later he added additional layers with references to Mexican art history and Pop culture. This includes outlines of watermelons inspired by Rufino Tamayo, a famous Modernist Oaxaquenian painter and Speedy Gonzalez inverted figures reminiscent of Georg Baselitz neo-expressionist’s moves.
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\"Nico Labor, 2015, neon light, plexiglas,\u00a0132 x 98 x 8,5 cm, edition of 2 + AP, image courtesy the artist and New Galerie, photo: Aur\u00e9lien Mole<\/p>\n

 
\nIn his recent show at Paris\u2019s New Galerie entitled \u201cShared Risk\u201d, Col\u00f3n presented the viewer with large woodblock stamps, inked and ready to print but without the material necessary to do so. \u201cIt\u2019s like an unfulfilled promise,\u201d he explains. \u201cMy parents were part of the Chicano and Puerto-Rican brown power movements and when I was growing up they had a collection of silk-screened or block-stamped activist poster. Using the same technique and reflecting on those somewhat failed or incomplete political movements, allowed me to develop my own approach as well as a discourse on ideology. They are attempts to account for American art history as well as a recognition of the state of emergency the world is in.\u201d
\nBy turning politics into an aesthetic, there is a danger that Col\u00f3n is arguably limiting political intervention to the sphere of the imagined. However, more persuasively, it also appears that in doing so, he is calling into question the basis for existing political \u2018realities\u2019, and therefore proving art’s ability to act as a space for progressive discussions and hope.
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\"Promises Promises Kept, 2015, woodblock stamp, ink,\u00a0244 x 122 x 7 cm, unique, image courtesy the artist and New Galerie, photo: Aur\u00e9lien Mole<\/p>\n

Nico Col\u00f3n was featured as a “One to Watch” in Sleek issue\u00a0#47, which can be purchased\u00a0on our\u00a0online shop<\/a>\u00a0today<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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