'A Hole in your Heart' - L.A., March, 2019
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Hardback copies available direct from the artist.
thebirdsofwinter@gmail.com
L I M I T E D E D I T I O N - H A R D B A C K
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'A Hole in your Heart': 1998 - 2018
Prose, paintings, drawings, correspondence.
P A P E R B A C K V E R S I O N
282 Pages. Full Color. March, 2019
'Page turning visuals with resonating messages that remind us to cherish the challenge'
dA Center for the Arts, Pomona, Los Angeles.
'As
with all “private papers”, these working journals allow us a glimpse into the
creative unconscious of an artist who has always been ahead (and to the sides) of
his time. James Peck is much more than merely a controversial artist from the
Falkland/Malvinas islands who defied the political dogmas of Britain or
Argentina. Since the beginning of his career and to the dismay of nationalists and
folklorists, Peck has always transcended the limitations of geographical or
even historical loyalties. Peck is rare, amphibious, multiple. He’s a unique painter and a poet
by nature born in a chunk of land, in the outskirts of nowhere, that became trapped
under the cross-fire of an absurd war (as they all are), waged between drunk
dictators and recalcitrant colonialists. As Peck wrote in The Silent Path: “War was just the background of a life one did not
choose”Since
then, James Peck has been creating heart-wrenching works that are stripped off to
the core. It started back in the 80’s with those forsaken landscapes and
evolved towards a more abstract, Zen-like, urban, almost conceptual language
that celebrates the meaningless and the fleeting. As it shows through these working
journals, Peck’s work defies all expectations of unity and displays an unusual gaze
committed to that vague and elusive dimension of our experience that cannot be
exorcized. To Peck, that is the very definition of the sacred.'
Pablo
Baler, novelist, art critic, and Professor of Latin-American Literature at
California State University, Los Angeles. Author of the award-winning
novel Circa (1999), Latin American Neo Baroque: Senses of
Distortion (2016), the collection of short stories La
burocracia mandarina (2013), and the editor of The Next Thing: Art
in the Twenty-First Century (2013). Baler is International Research Fellow at The Center
for Fine Art Research at Birmingham City University, U.K.
link to 'Home' - Buenos Aires to Stanley, video doc.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozIcW8hKstQ
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