Abstract

In a sequence of drawings from the mid-1990s, the Catalan artist Perejaume (b. 1957) visualizes the migration of art movements across geographical and political borders. In doing so, the artist offers visual forms for intangible journeys through time and space. In sharp contrast to earlier concepts of the development of art, from Vasari’s cyclical model of rise and fall to Alfred H. Barr’s linear ‘Development of Cubism and Abstract Art’, Perejaume’s drawings offer a less definitive, more suggestive, visualization of the migration of art movements. By locating his drawings in specific landscapes, the artist gives a sense of the complex spatial relations between art and place. Within his wider practice, Perejaume crosses many borders. Artist, poet, writer and performer, he works in an extensive range of styles and mediums. This paper explores Perejaume’s representations of the migration of art movements, proposing them as alternative visual and conceptual models for the shape of art history.

Highlights

  • How do artists represent the migration of ideas across time and space? What part does place play in the history of art movements? In a range of media and artistic styles the Catalan artist Perejaume addresses these questions

  • Crossing borders both within his practice and in the themes his works address, Perejaume offers a new approach to landscape representation by examining the relationship between the studio, the gallery and the plein air

  • Perejaume’s practice interrogates this overlap. This article discusses his engagement with both forms of landscape as well as his representations of the migration of art movements, proposing that the latter may be considered productive visual and theoretical models for the shape of art history

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Summary

Introduction

Poet, writer and performer, since the late 1970s he has employed play and humor to explore the role of the artist and the nature of image-making in media including drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, installation, performance, video, writing, poetry and mixed media works Crossing borders both within his practice and in the themes his works address, Perejaume offers a new approach to landscape representation by examining the relationship between the studio, the gallery and the plein air. This article discusses his engagement with both forms of landscape as well as his representations of the migration of art movements, proposing that the latter may be considered productive visual and theoretical models for the shape of art history. Produces creative dialogues nature as well as derpin Perejaume’s practice He He produces creative dialogues withwith nature as well as with with the history of landscape art, especially pleinairism.

Displacement
Paisajismo and ‘The Impossibility of Translating Nature into Art’
Spatial Relationships
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