A glimpse into Jorge Pineda’s visual world

May 14

For over three decades, Jorge Pineda has been one of the main figures from the Dominican Republic present in the international art scene. A native from Barahona, a province in the South-West region of our country, Jorge graduated in architecture from the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, in the 80’s. He then studied lithography, xylography and serigraphy at the Atelier Bordas in Paris, where he held his first solo exhibition in 1985. Presently, he lives and work in Santo Domingo.

Working mainly with drawing, painting and sculpture, he found in the medium of installation the space to express the multiplicity of his practice as well as his deep social concerns. His work has been exhibited, in solo and collective exhibitions, in Latin America, Europe and the United States and it can be found in important international collections of the likeness of MUSAC, DA2, IVAM, Museum of Modern Art of Santo Domingo, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros collection, among other. He has participated in the Venice, Cuenca, Lima and Habana Biennales. In 2009, together with his peers Tony Capellán, Pascal Meccariello, Raquel Paiewonsky and Belkis Ramírez, he founded the Dominican art collective Quintapata, with the objective of devising strategies to increase the local and international exposure of the production from the Dominican Republic's arts and cultural community.

In her text “Metaphors of the Global Society” Consuelo Ciscar Casabán, former director of the Valencian Institute of Modern Art IVAM, 2004-2014, describes Jorge’s work in the following terms: “With regard to the body of work by the Dominican artist Jorge Pineda, we noticed that in all of it there exists a critical reflection on the social activity generated around contemporary cities divided between cultural universalization and their territorial tradition. From this dual perspective Pineda’s conceptual installations open up, with an emphatic tone, the debate on present civil inequalities, the abuse of power, the lack of racial and sexual integration, violence, the violation of the basic rights of the child, etc.. Definitely, his works presents to us those most dazzling aspects of daily life which encourage the dehumanization of contemporary civilization".

We invite you to take a glimpse into Jorge’s work with this selection, gracefully curated by the artist himself for this Blog entry.