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Timothy Taylor is pleased to present Bolero, an exhibition of new paintings by Cuban-born, Madrid-based painter Michel Pérez Pollo at the gallery’s New York location. Bolero will feature large- and small-scale paintings of abstracted glyph-like forms in rich, earthen hues. This is Pérez Pollo’s first solo exhibition in New York and his second with the gallery.
This exhibition draws its title from the Cuban musical genre bolero, which developed from the romantic folk poetry of troubadours in late nineteenth-century Santiago de Cuba. Pérez Pollo drew particular inspiration from the traditional love song “Longina,” whose lyrics describe a mysterious, sensitive woman. Each painting abstracts a syllable from the song’s lyrics, with letter forms that shift in and out of recognition. These works connect the emotional resonance of juxtaposed forms to that of juxtaposed sounds, words, and phrases. Each syllable—reflected in the works’s titles, Sion,...More
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Timothy Taylor is pleased to present Bolero, an exhibition of new paintings by Cuban-born, Madrid-based painter Michel Pérez Pollo at the gallery’s New York location. Bolero will feature large- and small-scale paintings of abstracted glyph-like forms in rich, earthen hues. This is Pérez Pollo’s first solo exhibition in New York and his second with the gallery.
This exhibition draws its title from the Cuban musical genre bolero, which developed from the romantic folk poetry of troubadours in late nineteenth-century Santiago de Cuba. Pérez Pollo drew particular inspiration from the traditional love song “Longina,” whose lyrics describe a mysterious, sensitive woman. Each painting abstracts a syllable from the song’s lyrics, with letter forms that shift in and out of recognition. These works connect the emotional resonance of juxtaposed forms to that of juxtaposed sounds, words, and phrases. Each syllable—reflected in the works’s titles, Sion,...More
