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By the window
Ethan Caflisch - Yosigo
September - October 2023
Ethan Caflisch
Before painting, photography and design, Ethan Caflisch worked with clay. His beginnings as a ceramist gave him a taste for the simple, the sincere and the voluminous. Born in Wisconsin like Frank Lloyd Wright, the builder and poet he idolizes, Caflisch handcrafts direct objects, a kind of organic architecture in keeping with the flat landscapes of his childhood. Each piece is parsimonious, citing the previous one and adding the bare essentials. Scraps of patched fabric, gouaches or acrylics... The whole forms a logical sequence based on canvas, wooden frames and chatty titles. Separate rooms, the meeting point between floor and wall, a film clip, their country of origin, anonymous crowds in the underground, windows and tables are all subjects treated in primary or rustic colours. Threshold spaces and raw materials are the constants in this domestic practice, tuned like a sewing machine.
Yosigo
In Dubai, Benidorm or Copenhagen, José Javier Serrano, alias Yosigo, captures buildings, beaches and people.
buildings, beaches and people. The light decides almost everything: volumes and colours obey it, never more hollow or wild than when it caresses them. The ex-graphic artist and Stephen Shore fanatic follows his progress from morning to night to build new topographies, precise details of man-altered landscapes, of places without quality whose beauty is astonishing. Yosigo collects them, using cast shadows, balconies and umbrellas to create an ordinary archive of pure lines, warm tones and sharp frames. There is nothing critical about this inventory, and even when he looks at architecture and beaches that have fallen victim to mass tourism, his gaze remains neutral. All that counts is the harmony of the whole: symmetry and perspective work to maintain calm.
In these uneventful series, windows and bathers are merely forms whose balance sublimates nature and the built environment.
