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Javier Tellez
Born 1969, Valencia, Venezuela. Lives and works in New York.
Selected solo exhibitions
2006
Distinguished Artist in Residence: Javier Téllez, curators Francis Dittmer and Pamela Sanders, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA.
2005
La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc (Rozelle Hospital), The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada. Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich (2006).
2004
A Hunger Artist, Museo Carillo Gil, Mexico City.
2002
Alpha 60 (The Mind-Body Problem), White Box, curator Raul Zamudio, New York.
Selected group exhibitions
2006
Limites — Estrecho Dudoso, curators Virginia Pérez-Ratton and Tamara Díaz Bringas, ARS TEOR/éTica, San José Norte, Costa Rica.
On Mobility II, curator Saskia Bos, De Appel, Amsterdam.
2005
InSite_05, curators Carmen Cuenca and Michael Krichmann, San Diego/Tijuana, Mexico/USA.
Acción Directa, curator Marco Scotini, Prague Biennale 2, Prague.
2004
On Reason and Emotion, Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia.
Similar to a medieval religious procession, policemen carry a heraldic symbol of Venezuela around the streets of Caracas to the music of Jose Angel Lamas, a famous national composer of the XVIII century. Joining in this procession are the inhabitants of the outskirts who look more like holy fools. The problem of socio-cultural norms, of man’s psychology- this is one of the central problems looked at in the artist’s works. Having been born in to a family of psychiatrists, Javier Tellez views medicine that has the power to expel someone from society as an important indicator of the state of society’s health.
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Javier Tellez (Venezuela)
El leon de Caracas, 2002
Video, 7.40 min
Courtesy the artist and Galeria Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
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