In different ways, and through different means, the work expresses a longing for a time gone by, like the function that is no more, or the scar that the past left on the material.
In Jeronimo Villa's work, three major subjects emerge: impossibility, time and death. Impossibility is depicted by means of denying function and highlighting that which is impossible, chronicling tensions and glorifying contrasts. Time and death are expressed by rescuing found objects from neglect and oblivion. This results in volumetric pieces composed of materials and stories, that tend to convey a certain nostalgia for their former self. Jeronimo Villa adopts derelict objects, intervenes their shape and their forgotten function, and puts together structures where geometry is clearly expressed. He often finds his raw materials in the street. More than being just abandoned, these objects bear scars of human violence, of the elements’ impact, and of the nature of the material. They seem resolved to cease being themselves and become the friction between time and oblivion. Next to a sewer, lying against a lamp pole or sharing the space with the stench of urine, the collection of these nameless objects is curated mostly by passion. They are gradually included in an inventory that is free from disdain and which negates desolation.
The liaison between life and death is the conceptual backbone of the work. It is the source from where it evolves. Found objects were dead in life and now are celebrated and implemented within a sculptural and conceptual process.
Chairs, furniture, blinds, tree-trunks, windows and an assortment of intervened objects are frozen in time. Some others are embedded or have had things embedded in them, like a memory that is lodged in time. Books, strings, wood, paint and fire, a full dialogue between materials and objects. The work embraces the nameless objects and baptizes them with a new order that converses with space and offers mature narratives; an order that is consolidated in sculpture, in painting, and mostly, in poetry. The object is now a memory, a past that is engraved in the work. Time has stopped and left behind still scenes that elude death and recount just a tiny fraction of what they have ceased to be.
In different ways, and through different means, the work expresses a longing for a time gone by, like the function that is no more, or the scar that the past left on the material.
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Alternate Saws, 2022View more details
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Black Sea, 2022View more details
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Black Tide, 2022View more details
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Blind 1, 2021View more details
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Blind 2, 2021View more details
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Blind 3, 2021View more details
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Blind 5, 2021View more details
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Blind Op. 21, 2021View more details
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Blind Op. 22, 2021View more details
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Cascade, 2022View more details
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Opposite Saws, 2022View more details
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Red Tide, 2022View more details
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Red Tide, 2022View more details
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Saw, 2022View more details
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Torrent, 2021View more details
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What Separates Us, 2022View more details
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White tide, 2022View more details
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Yellow Tide, 2022View more details
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Yellow Tide, 2022View more details
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Los Angeles Art Fair 2023
15 - 19 Feb 2023BEYOND PAPER Colombian artists redefining paper. For decades Colombian artists have been redefining what art on paper is and can be. Next to traditional drawing...Read more -
ARTBO 2022
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Art on Paper NY 2022
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We Are Blue
Group Show 28 Jan - 24 Feb 2023WE ARE BLUE Group Show Works by Carlos Alarcón, Angélica Chavarro, Carolina Convers, Luis Luna, Catalina Prado, Ismael Rivera, Pedro Ruiz, and Jerónimo Villa. Blue is a polysemic color:...Read more -
Fiorhe
Colectiva de Artistas de Beatriz Esguerra en Fiorhe 26 Aug - 10 Oct 2022 -
ARTBO Fin de Semana
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Nonabrasive Times
Recent Works by Jeronimo Villa 29 Jan - 26 Feb 2022Nonabrasive Times Works by Jeronimo Villa The landscape is constantly changing. It is neither static nor perishable; it is mutant, fluctuating, fluid. In the distance, mountains resemble still paintings, marble...Read more -
Conversations in Small Format
A Small Format Gallery Group Show 9 - 22 Dec 2021CONVERSATIONS A Small Format Gallery Group Show After a year of hardwork and adjustment, we are happy to share that 2021 ends on a high note. To celebrate the end...Read more