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“The End of the Landscape” brings together several series of pastel drawings by the Berlin-based Uruguayan artist Héctor Solari. What they all have in common is that they sublimate the thematic examination of violence and destruction in the air, or more precisely in the clouds.

Arranged into a situational spatial concept, the works, which are understood as objects, can be connected to various discourses, be it local or global trouble spots, climate change or the broad field of personal fears and worries. On the surface, they reject the effectiveness of idylls and, as it were, utopias in today’s world. However, if we look deeper, enlightening dystopias are not the counter offer.

Solari measures the perpetual “air quake” of human destinies and escapades in constantly rising cascades of clouds and develops an almost metaphysical power from the contrast between deep darkness and glistening brightness.

The experience of the uncanny, the unclear, the undefined protrudes into the gallery space and pushes the here and now and doubts about a satisfactory present beyond itself. A parallelism of different presences becomes palpable, which is complemented in the spatial concept by the invitation of audible descriptions of everyday life by the Ukrainian artist Iryna Yaniv.

Héctor Solari was born in Montevideo [Uruguay] in 1959 and has lived in Germany since 1993. Solari studied art in Montevideo with Guillermo Fernández [Montevideo] and in Lucca [Italy] with Luis Camnitzer, as well as architecture in Montevideo.

He has exhibited in the following institutions, among others: Museo Juan Manuel Blanes, Montevideo [Uruguay]; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid [Spain]; Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires [Argentina]; Baltycka Galeria Sztuki, Slupsk and BWA Gallery, Katowice [Poland]; Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Leipzig; Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin; Haus der Kunst, Munich and Germanisches Museum, Nuremberg.

From 2010 to 2018, he taught the subjects “Aesthetics”, “History of Video Art” and “Contradictions in Contemporary Culture” at Dresden International University and the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences. He has been teaching “Dance and Architecture” at the Palucca University of Dance in Dresden since 2019.

Héctor Solari lives and works in Berlin.

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