Javier Téllez

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Javier Téllez (born February 22, 1969 in Valencia , Venezuela ) is a Venezuelan artist and filmmaker.

life and work

Téllez was born the youngest of three sons to Teresa Miranda Pacheco and Pedro Téllez Carrasco, an educated, art-loving couple psychiatrists who were said to have one of the largest libraries in town. It is reported that as a child, Javier Téllez took part in therapy sessions with patients in his parents' practice. His interest in mental illness, the world of madness and the tension between normal and otherness was aroused early on. At the same time he was introduced to the spiritual world of books by his parents.

Téllez studied from 1984 to 1986 at the Escuela de Artes Plasticas Arturo Michelena ( Arturo Michelena School of Fine Arts) in his hometown. In 1987 he moved to the Escuela de Cine of the Universidad de Carabobo and attended courses at the private Escuela Nacional de Cine y TV de Caracas (National School for Film and Television). 1986 he had his first exhibitions in Venezuela (Galerie Gabriel Bracho, Caracas) , He has received various grants and art prizes, including the Premio UC en el XIV Salón Aragua (Museo de Arte de Maracay). He made drawings and painted in acrylic on canvas, but increasingly opened up to three-dimensional works, photographs and video films. In 1993 he received a scholarship for foreign artists (Foreign Artists Studio Program) from the Venezuelan Calara Foundation and the Institute for Contemporary Art MoMA PS1 in New York.

In 1996 Téllez showed portrait photographs at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas under the title “La extracción de la piedra de la locura” (The Extraction of the Stone of Madness), which referred to a painting of the same name by Hieronymus Bosch from 1475 to 1480. In the work, Téllez drew on memories of the gloomy atmosphere of the Psychiatric Clinic Barbul a (Psiquiátrico de Bárbula) in Valencia, where his father worked. “La Conquista De México” (2012) was created for documenta 13 . The film goes back to the recorded experiences of the trip to Mexico of the French poet, playwright, theater director and playwright Antonin Artaud in 1934.

Movies

  • Oedipus Marshal, 2006. One-channel video, super 16 mm film transferred to BluRay, color, sound, 30 min. Commissioned by the Aspen Art Museum;
  • Letter on the Blind , For the Use of Those Who See , 2007. Super 16 mm film transferred to HD video, black and white, 5.1 Digital Dolby Surround, 27.36 min.
  • Caligari and the Sleepwalker , 2008. Super 16 mm film transferred to HD video, black and white, 5.1 Digital Dolby Surround, 07/27 min.

Exhibitions

literature

  • Javier Téllez, Cármen Hernández, Katherine Chacón: La Extracción de la Piedra de la Locura , Museo de Bellas Artes (Venezuela), Volume 31 of Exposición (Fundación Museo Arturo Michelena)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maria Becker: '' Messages to those who see. The film work of the Venezuelan artist Javier Téllez '' . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from November 5, 2014
  2. ↑ La Case de la Paraula website
personal data
SURNAME Téllez, Javier
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Venezuelan artist and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 22nd February 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Valencia (Venezuela)