Platform online exhibitions

Javier Ruiz Pérez

Platform: Online Exhibition

Until 27 September

Pérez’s Platform exhibition presents a series of paintings that depict his personal interpretation of a Garden of Earthly Delights; a heavenly place inhabited by people without a specific gender. Without framing his protagonists in any social context, Pérez explores the pure human condition, leaving the viewer to observe the innate human psychology without any enhancing elements. Pérez builds images on a paradoxical dichotomy between dreams and reality, creating a personalised space for his characters by juxtaposing mundane scenes of modern life with blissful landscapes.

Born in 1989, in Andalusia, Javier Ruiz Pérez is a figurative painter whose artistic practise focuses on captivating the raw human experience. Pérez has a degree in sculpture, graphic design and illustration from the School of Art No. 10 in Madrid. He has exhibited both collectively and individually at ‘Torso, Círculo y Rama’ in 2018, in the Juan Francisco Casas exhibition hall in his hometown. In 2021, Pérez presented his first exhibition with the Víctor Lope Gallery entitled ‘As far as I know’ in Barcelona. Later this year Pérez had his second solo show titled ‘Wax and Wane’ at The Curators Room, in Amsterdam. He was the winner of the 2015 Bienal de Pintura deportiva de Burgos.

Pérez’s works reside in the collection of the Contemporary Figurative Art of the European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM) in Barcelona. Pérez currently lives and works in Amsterdam.

“My work always revolves around human beings and their relationships, both with other human beings and with themselves. I place them in open spaces, devoid of everything that is not nature. Places where they can be searched and found. Where they can feel free.” – Javier Ruiz Pérez