ExhibitionJune 23, 2023
Milton Becerra and Pancho Quilici: L'outreligne (The Other Line)
La Maison de l'Amérique latine presents the exhibition L'outreligne (The Other Line) by Milton Becerra (1951) and Pancho Quilici (1954). Christine Frérot curated the show, and it will be on view until July 22 this year.
These two Venezuelan artists arrived in France in the early 1980s and were influenced by their predecessors who worked in kinetic art. However, they transformed their work and found their artistic language. In it, geometry and nature intermingle in lines, wefts, and forms; simultaneously, cosmogonic and shamanic utopias merge. They also take mathematical and scientific references in their approaches and experimentations.
In this exhibition, La Maison de l'Amérique latine shows how these two artists cohabit coherently; Becerra's weaving responds to Quilici's mesh and vice versa. Becerra and Quilici defy the void and feed their curiosity and knowledge from the scientific. On the one hand, Quilici's geometric relationship and mathematical precision are exhibited, and on the other hand, the incidence of tradition and indigenous memory in Becerra. Thus, each of the works is related to each other from an abstract language composed of lines and constellations that interweave.
These two Venezuelan artists arrived in France in the early 1980s and were influenced by their predecessors who worked in kinetic art. However, they transformed their work and found their artistic language. In it, geometry and nature intermingle in lines, wefts, and forms; simultaneously, cosmogonic and shamanic utopias merge. They also take mathematical and scientific references in their approaches and experimentations.
In this exhibition, La Maison de l'Amérique latine shows how these two artists cohabit coherently; Becerra's weaving responds to Quilici's mesh and vice versa. Becerra and Quilici defy the void and feed their curiosity and knowledge from the scientific. On the one hand, Quilici's geometric relationship and mathematical precision are exhibited, and on the other hand, the incidence of tradition and indigenous memory in Becerra. Thus, each of the works is related to each other from an abstract language composed of lines and constellations that interweave.
