Oil on canvas
80cm x 100cm
Jordan Rubio (@jordanrubio10)
So very happy with the latest artwork added to the collection, one of the first paintings to go up in our new home and, rather wonderfully, the first piece Russ and I have bought together.
Thank you to the hugely talented Jordan Rubio for trusting us with such a beautiful, challenging and thought-provoking painting. It’s a powerful piece and one that has properly rekindled the collector spirit in me after it being packed away for the past few years.
There’s something about Jordan’s work that rewards sitting with it. His paintings occupy that uneasy space between figuration and abstraction, beauty and decay, softness and something altogether darker. Recurring figures emerge, fracture and dissolve amongst layers of colour and imagery, never allowing themselves to be read too easily. Jordan talks about wanting the viewer to hesitate and question not only what they’re looking at, but how they’re looking, and I think that tension and ambiguity is part of what makes the work so compelling.
We’ve hung it between two of my favourite works by Luke and I know he’d approve. Somehow the three works already feel very much at home together.
I’m incredibly excited to watch Jordan’s practice develop and can’t wait for his upcoming solo in Berlin, and to see what comes out of his time in NYC over the next few months. Such a talented and fascinating artist at a really exciting point in his practice, I have a feeling it’s going to be quite a ride.
Big thank you to @callum__crawford for the intro to Jordan, you’re a ⭐️
3 hours agomoonchild.ascending
Since when it’s okay to appropriate Chinese art without any acknowledgement? When Vincent van Gogh explored Japonaiserie, he openly collected, studied, and explicitly credited the Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints that inspired his work. In contrast, Mr. Rubio’s painting heavily replicates the composition, figures, and structural elements of the renowned 1984 historic mural Gathering of Outstanding Figures (《人文荟萃》) by Hua Qimin, a master artist from China’s Central Academy of Fine Arts, permanently housed at the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan, China. This was done without a single reference, credit, or acknowledgment of the original source work. Furthermore, the alterations and contextual framing of these historic figures demonstrate a significant disregard for the cultural heritage they represent. Another detail is that in the original painting on the left is a black panther, and Mr. Rubio names his painting A skinny dog, some flowers and nudes with unclear intentions.
a month agosrishanth_stunter_
sry ur dms r closed. my roommate won’t send it so i will lol. she’s starting over in a new city. hit her up on snap tiedoinino she’s trying to get out more this stays between us
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