{"id":350,"date":"2021-03-10T10:14:13","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T02:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=350"},"modified":"2021-03-10T10:16:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T02:16:01","slug":"nick-quijanos-intimate-paintings-showcase-everyday-scenes-of-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/auction\/nick-quijanos-intimate-paintings-showcase-everyday-scenes-of-puerto-rico\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Quijano\u2019s Intimate Paintings Showcase Everyday Scenes of Puerto Rico"},"content":{"rendered":"

Epic scenes of the kind featured in paintings of battles, coronations, and other major historical events are not the specialty of\u00a0Nick Quijano<\/a>, an artist based in Puerto Rico, with an\u00a0online exhibition<\/a>\u00a0hosted by\u00a0Fort Gansevoort<\/a>\u00a0devoted to works geared toward intimate scenes of everyday life around his home in Old San Juan.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not into the big stories of history painting,\u201d Quijano said in a Zoom interview from his studio last month. \u201cI\u2019m into the little stories\u2014I want to appeal to the intimacy of feeling and to the heart.\u201d<\/p>\n

Quijano began the series of paintings in the show in 1980 and has been \u201cdoing scenes of Puerto Rico ever since,\u201d he said. \u201cI haven\u2019t stopped because I still relate to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Some of Quijano\u2019s pieces draw from his childhood memories. In\u00a0Cumplea\u00f1os con Brownie y Nilka (1956)<\/em>, completed in 2020, a young boy wearing a blue blazer and a blue party hat stands in front of a birthday cake with a candle in the shape of the number three. The boy, a young Quijano, is flanked by two dogs also with hats on their heads. Above them are streamers in red, yellow, blue, and green.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t have any friends,\u201d Quijano recalled of the scene in the painting, which is one of the few works in the series based on a photograph. \u201cThis aunt of mine who was organizing the celebration, she had two dogs, so she put hats on them and they were my special friends for the party. There\u2019s a lot of love in there.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Nick Quijano,\u00a0Ave Mar\u00eda (In memoriam of the victims of hurricane Mar\u00eda)<\/em>, 2020.<\/span>COURTESY THE ARTIST AND FORT GANSEVOORT<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

The work is also animated by paint that goes beyond the confines of the canvas onto a wooden matte that Quijano constructed\u2014a recurring motif throughout the series. \u201cIt goes beyond the frame because it seems to me that a painting is often a painting of the past\u2014it seems to be stuck in a moment,\u201d he said. \u201cThe extensions that I give to my paintings try to bring it to the moment, to the present. It\u2019s not something that happened as much as something that is\u00a0happening<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other works in the exhibition focus on ordinary encounters the artist has witnessed in Old San Juan. In\u00a0Mercado\u00a0<\/em>(2020), two men read newspapers as they await customers at their fruit stands in a market, their legs and wares extending onto the wooden matte.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m talking about things that are still alive in me,\u201d Quijano said of a process that draws mostly from memory. He sees the works as drawing from \u201cmemory without the nostalgia. I don\u2019t evoke it with a sense of longing. It\u2019s something that happened and I want to celebrate it. I try to bring the feeling of what that [scene] evoked in me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Nick Quijano,\u00a0Mercado<\/em>, 2020.<\/span>COURTESY THE ARTIST AND FORT GANSEVOORT<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Another work completed last year shows a man with his raised and his eyes watering and slightly red. \u201cIt\u2019s any man and every man,\u201d Quijano said of\u00a0Ave Mar\u00eda (In memoriam of the victims of hurricane Mar\u00eda)<\/em>. \u201cThe man hold ups his hands in hopelessness. He\u2019s crying within the chaos that Maria left. There\u2019s still a lot of hurt and a lot of recovery left.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued, \u201cPuerto Rico has been constantly marginalized. We\u2019re supposed to be part of the United States, but we\u2019re really not. As a country, we\u2019re not free yet. We\u2019re still a colony, the oldest colony in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bobbito Garcia<\/a>, a DJ, filmmaker, and author who organized Quijano\u2019s Fort Gansevoort show, said that political concerns of the sort are key to understanding the exhibition. Garcia hopes the paintings \u201cwill provide context to people who don\u2019t understand the relationship of the U.S. to Puerto Rico. These are all deeper issues that aren\u2019t spelled out in Nick\u2019s paintings, but I think his paintings give some background and context to this.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Nick Quijano,\u00a0Las Noticias<\/em>, 2014.<\/span>COURTESY THE ARTIST AND FORT GANSEVOORT<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Garcia pointed to one work in particular that spoke to him,\u00a0Las Noticias\u00a0<\/em>(2014), in which men sit in a plaza discussing the day\u2019s news. At the center are two men, one who is fair-skinned and another who is Black. Garcia said paintings of the kind \u201callow people to see not a face of the Island but\u00a0the faces<\/em>\u00a0of the Island and that includes Black people in Puerto Rico. I think the media doesn\u2019t always show the diversity of our people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Quijano echoed Garcia\u2019s analysis of his work, saying that he wants people to be able to connect with his paintings by seeing scenes that might feel familiar.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m trying to portray them so that another audience can relate in terms of their experiences,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a way of creating communication where the observer is more than just the mere passive audience. What I felt, hopefully, will evoke something in the audience\u2019s heart and memories.\u201d<\/p>\n

Quijano continued, \u201cWe\u2019re all going to die. But we want to live this experience with the most intense feelings we may have. The question is what are we going to do before we pass?\u201d Work on the kind of paintings he creates, Quijano said, equates to \u201ctrying to make sense of this thing called life.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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