As KANDINSKY in his time, José PEREIRA compares painting with music and literature, these three arts being subjected to strict rules and some conventions. The artistic act has for origin the variety of relationships between the plastic components, giving them a new meaning.
José PEREIRA’s language transposes elements of color and forms known since DELAUNAY and MIRO. The geometrical forms submerged in meaningful colors, describe their most intimate sentiments and their relations with the world. The observer can read and even interpret, in a total opposite way the abstract and surrealist vision of the Artist. The fact of giving up, in a deliverate way to entitle his works let the spectator enter without prejudice into his inner world.
This independent Artist, born in Montevideo (Uruguay) and living in Paris since 1968, shows us a revealing ensemble of his whole work: oil, gouaches, drawings, collages and sculptures.
In the middle of José Pereira’s observations, is the man in his relation with the environment, loaded with tensions and in which he moves and merges. In certain paintings the Universe of forms merges with its environment and is transformed, being allowed to be absorbed in certain cases, or even falling into pieces, seemingly without weight, in an iridescent plurality, getting loose from the simplicity of the bottom.
Men and women are reduced to the strict essentials of their characteristics, some time depersonalized behind their face; carrying masks, but communicating among them in continual forms and constant movement, by dancing, embracing or separating.
The works give a supplementary dynamics by becoming integrated into another dimension: the Time.
From a plurality of perspectives is born the illusion of time, successions of movements of forms which approach or go away giving us the idea of evolution in the space and the time. What is offered to the eyes of the spectators is not at all a muddled puzzle, but indeed a thoughtful concept based on a system of complex and artistic symbols.