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Dyptych / Digital print manually altered with collages, enamel, drawing and wood fragments on Hahnemüle paper, mounted on sintra with artist’s frame.
80 x 73 in.
Omar Barquet's mixed media works investigate space, time, sound, and memory with a specialized emphasis on exploring human emotions and the chaos that pervades our experiences. Through his creations, Barquet invites audiences to contemplate the intricate and nuanced relationships between these elements and how they influence our understanding of our world.
Postcard, fragments of polaroid photograph, wood and metallic paper, enamel, color pencil, seashell, feather and pins, mounted on painted mdf and glass box.
20.66 x 20.7 x 5.31 in / 52.5 x 51.5 x 13.5 cm
Collage is my most natural medium to communicate visually. It reflects the way I connect with my reality, my imagination, my emotions, my personal memory and it allows me to play with a vast range of references and languages. My first exhibition, when I was 19 years old, included a collection of collages on cardboard boxes, but since I remember, I used to make assemblages and images with remains of wood, branches and leaves, discarded objects, also using fragments of my drawings and photographs.
Recently, I consider many of my collages as an experimental storyboard, adding a narrative intention that depicts my personal experiences through a wide range of media and disciplines, compiling a collection of references that I like to name as “Ghosts”. Their voices, words, images, sounds, spaces or presence, usually have an intriguing echo or inspiration on my creative process.
I feel that collages are like an alchemy. They generate a connection between image, language, memory, materiality and time that ends in a layered conjunction of discordant fragments transforming each other into a poetic / abstract experience.
Omar Barquet
Mixed media collage, fragments of wood and seashells, metallic paper, silver and golden pins, enamel and ink on printed paper on wooden panel and custom artist frame
17 x 14.17 in.
Digital print on enameled glass modified manually, fragments of enameled sandblasted wood, rocking chair, embroidery hoop, carved furniture and tree branch, enameled ceramic plate and coral stone, carved wood and black clay necklace with peacock feather and steel brackets.
37.4 x 59 x 10.26 in.
I am an interdisciplinary artist, born in the the Mexican Caribbean, who integrates through collage, printmaking, sculpture, painting, performance, and sound, a body of work that is organized in different projects in a similar way to a symphony, and that refer to the path of a hurricane as a regeneration process. The imaginary of these projects feeds on personal memories as well as different references from music, poetry, and art history.
Omar Barquet
Collage, color pencil, enamel, golden pin, fragments of wood, seashell and butterfly wings on wooden board and glass box with brass frame.
25.5 x 25.5 x 4 cm
Omar Barquet was born in 1979 in Quintana Roo, México. He is currently based in Ciudad de México, México.
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