Mark


OMAR BARQUET

Works

Unsleeping Birds/ Enamel on wood / 71 x 57 in / 2017 Unsleeping birds 3, / Enamel on wood / 63.x 64 in / 2018 GHOST VARIATIONS / THE SHINING SEQUENCE (After R. Schumann) / 92.5 63 in / Xilography on liberon paper 350 g. / Ed. 9 monotype copies + 2 P.A. / 2015 The Midnight sun / Digital print on paper interened with holes an nails / 80 x 57.5 in / Monotype Ed. 3 + 1 P.A. / 2014 Two suns / Oil painting on wood panel / 59 x 96 in / 2016 The symphonic sketch / 71 x 57 in / Digital print on Hahnemüle paper mounted on Sintra with artist’s frame/ Monotype Ed. 3 + 1 P.A. / 2014 Astilla / Intervened chair fragments installed on a wall / 2012 Gota de sol (Para O. Paz) / 16.5 x 17 x 1 in / Intervened glass, collage and gold pin / 2015 Present Tense / Tempered, beveled, polished and enameled glass, suspenede with aluminum supports and steel cable / 92 x 55 in x 6 mm lla (syllables series) / collage and acrylic on wood / 9 x 12 in / 2016 “Wave maker” / 71 x 56 in/ Digital print on intervened paper / Ed. 3 + 1 P.A. / 2015 “Oiseaux Exotiques” (after O. Messiaen) / Mural painting on the parking lot of the Paraiso Bay Views condominium complex / Permanent public art project for Related Group, Miami, USA / High durability vinylic paint and enamel sealed on Stucco / 7,655 y2 / 2018 A lapse of silence (Hemispheres) / Carbon disc of 33 rpm perforated and broken into two parts, spintable with translucent iluminated base / 14 x 14 x 5 in / Ed. 3 + 1 P.A. / 2013 Drop of Sun / 2014 / Circular mirror fragment, intervened and burned as part of an action carried out at midnight on the beach of Chelem, Yucatan. This video piece shows the combustion of a type of Arno Jacobsen ant chair and a circular mirror, planted next to a mirror of water. This piece articulates the end of the Ghost Variations project and is conceptually and symbolically linked to the beginning of the project, titled The Midnight Sun / Video / Duration: 2:30 min. Monotone (After Y. Klein) / 71 x 43 in / Digital print on paper intervened with holes/ Monotype Ed. 3 + 1 P.A. / 2014 Licofrón (el obscuro) / 71 x 54 x 2.3 in / Digital print on modified paper nails, wood frame polished and enameled / Ed. 3 + 1 P.A. / 2014 El nudo por venir / (the knot to come) / 47 x 117 x 31.5 in / Rocking chair fragments and lighting / 2016 Áurea / 39 x 20 x 4 in / Intervened mirror and chair fragments and digital print / 2015 Pendular (Para C. Brancusi) / 20 x 20 x 4 in / Intervened mirror fragment, shoe mold carved and enameled, gold pin and string / 2015 Casandra / 2013 - 14 / Perforated and burnt chair, lamp, lighting, mirror and directional speaker. The sound piece is a vocal piece executed by the sound artist Bárbara Lázara, creating a moan based on the waves, progressively blurred into a series of gestures and vocal sounds, articulating a growing lament, a soundscape that is rearticulated between the silence and the intensity / Dimensions vary / Audio: 15 min Reflection / 31.5 x 31.5 x 47 in / Intervened and enameled table, trimmed mirror and lighting / 2011 Im Freien (Reverse) (After B. Bartók) / Presto Collage y técnica mixta sobre 5 portadas de enciclopedia científica, reproductor de audio y repisa de madera / 153 x 14 x 30 cm / 2011 The broken poem (After Paul Éluard) / / Performance for video divided into 3 actions: the wind, the storm, / 3 audio monitors / Duration: 95 miin / Carried out in Madragora’s Art Space, NYC / June 2014 The Tides (After H. W. Longfellow) / Intervened enameled bed, mirrors, blue tempered glass, fragments of paint brushes and nail / 82.5 x 43 x 55 in / 2014 Hidden Words / 71 x 55 in/ Digital print on intervened paper and nails / Monotype Ed. 3 + 1 P.A. / 2014




Bio

Omar Barquet´s conceptual artworks and installations use a wide range of means (drawing, photography and graphics) to explore broader perceptual and sensorial issues, particularly those relating to movement and repetition, visibility and invisibility. One of his major concerns is the adaptability of human to their material and sound environments. In his recent work, he has, in his own words, “developed a method of research which proposes various possibilities of perception and interaction between space, time, landscape, sound and memory.” Thereby, he has undertaken different projects grounded in these concepts, then allowing him to explore diverse processes of representation.

Omar Barquet (b. 1979, Chetumal, Mexico) received his bachelor’s degree in fine arts from the ENPEG La Esmeralda, in Mexico City. His work has been shown in national and international museums and galleries including solo shows at the Mandragoras Art Space, New York; the Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Mérida; the Kunsthalle, Sao Paulo;  the Christinger de Mayo Gallery, Zürich, Von Bartha Gallery in Basel, amongst others. In 2009, he earned a two-month residency in Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2010 held a solo show titled REVERB at the Experimental Museum El Eco, and in 2011 was commissioned to develop the site-specific installation LAPSES for the Hermés Paris –Mexico Foundation. In 2013 he was part of an artist’s residence at Casa Tomada, that concluded with a solo show In 2018, he started his first international public art project, a 3,530 sqft mural entitled “Oiseaux Exotiques,” commisioned by Related Group for the Paraiso Bayviews complex, in Midtown Miami.