¡Mira!
¡Mira! pastel on paper (framed), 76 x 56 cm, 2024
Shown as part of Elena Njoabuzia Onwochei-Garcia’s debut solo show, Quixotic.
Inspired by Miguel de Cervantes legendary 1605 novel Don Quixote, Onwochei-Garcia’s large-scale, immersive paper painting installations explore the clash of chaos and idealism and the dissonance that arises from one’s ordered expectations of the world and its anarchic, often tumultuous reality. In the novel, an aging man becomes infatuated by the enchanted visions of chivalric fantasy in the books that he avidly reads. He decides that he will become a knight-errant, embarking on a fantastical quest through 17th century Spain. Don Quixote’s world is an absurd one. He refuses to engage with reality; choosing instead to re-create the world within his mind and transform the banal, quotidian aspects of life into grand, fantastical illusions. For Onwochei-Garcia, Don Quixote’s strange, mirage-warped outlook on the world provides a unique way of interrogating and dissecting our observable reality. In Onwochei-Garcia’s huge paintings, the presence of mythological figures, grotesque forms and shifting, blurring perspectives serves to peel back the opaque, flimsy veneer of linearity, control and objectivity to reveal fragmentation and unpredictable chaos.
¡Mira! pastel on paper (framed), 76 x 56 cm, 2024
Shown as part of Elena Njoabuzia Onwochei-Garcia’s debut solo show, Quixotic.
Inspired by Miguel de Cervantes legendary 1605 novel Don Quixote, Onwochei-Garcia’s large-scale, immersive paper painting installations explore the clash of chaos and idealism and the dissonance that arises from one’s ordered expectations of the world and its anarchic, often tumultuous reality. In the novel, an aging man becomes infatuated by the enchanted visions of chivalric fantasy in the books that he avidly reads. He decides that he will become a knight-errant, embarking on a fantastical quest through 17th century Spain. Don Quixote’s world is an absurd one. He refuses to engage with reality; choosing instead to re-create the world within his mind and transform the banal, quotidian aspects of life into grand, fantastical illusions. For Onwochei-Garcia, Don Quixote’s strange, mirage-warped outlook on the world provides a unique way of interrogating and dissecting our observable reality. In Onwochei-Garcia’s huge paintings, the presence of mythological figures, grotesque forms and shifting, blurring perspectives serves to peel back the opaque, flimsy veneer of linearity, control and objectivity to reveal fragmentation and unpredictable chaos.
¡Mira! pastel on paper (framed), 76 x 56 cm, 2024
Shown as part of Elena Njoabuzia Onwochei-Garcia’s debut solo show, Quixotic.
Inspired by Miguel de Cervantes legendary 1605 novel Don Quixote, Onwochei-Garcia’s large-scale, immersive paper painting installations explore the clash of chaos and idealism and the dissonance that arises from one’s ordered expectations of the world and its anarchic, often tumultuous reality. In the novel, an aging man becomes infatuated by the enchanted visions of chivalric fantasy in the books that he avidly reads. He decides that he will become a knight-errant, embarking on a fantastical quest through 17th century Spain. Don Quixote’s world is an absurd one. He refuses to engage with reality; choosing instead to re-create the world within his mind and transform the banal, quotidian aspects of life into grand, fantastical illusions. For Onwochei-Garcia, Don Quixote’s strange, mirage-warped outlook on the world provides a unique way of interrogating and dissecting our observable reality. In Onwochei-Garcia’s huge paintings, the presence of mythological figures, grotesque forms and shifting, blurring perspectives serves to peel back the opaque, flimsy veneer of linearity, control and objectivity to reveal fragmentation and unpredictable chaos.
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