LUIS KERCH
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LUISKERCH
O B R A S
Kerch es un pintor plenairista. Organiza sus lienzos a modo de reverberaciones que activan nuestra imaginación dando luz a los paisajes que parecen conformar.
Kerch actualmente vive entre Las Islas Canarias y Baja California. Es Licenciado en Bellas Artes por la Universidad de Miami, Florida. Estudió en Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, Nueva York, obteniendo, en 1990, el título de Master of Science in Communication Design.
Sus imágenes son movedizas, oscilaciones de luz y color originadas por manchas traslúcidas. Sus motivos parecen no disolverse completamente para permanecer en un estado de perpetua disolución. Al igual que en Turner, en su obra la intensidad se funde con el instante.
Luis Kerch ha expuesto en EEUU., México, España, Reino Unido, Portugal y China. Entre sus exposiciones se encuentran The Mall Galleries de Londres, Centro Cultural de España en México y en el Instituto Cabrera Pinto del Gobierno de Canarias en 2016 y 2011.
Luis Kerch
Is an artist with a Masters Degree in Communication Design from the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, USA and a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts from the University of Miami, Florida. USA.
AN OBSERVER COMMITTED TO ART AND NATURE. HIS WORK REPRESENTS THE EXPERIENCE OF PERCEIVING THE WORLD AND THE LIGHT THAT SURROUNDS US THROUGH THE USE OF COLOUR.
Since the work carried in 2011 in Kent, UK, his artwork has had an impact on the national and international art scene. On three occasions, he was selected and short-listed for Britain's "Threadneedle Prize for Painting & Sculpture," organised by the Federation of British Artists and London's Saatchi Gallery.
Throughout the last 15 years, he has collaborated with Mexican galleries such as that of Alfredo Ginocchio and Intersección Arte Contemporáneo in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and art fairs in the USA, Europe and other Latin American countries, as well as participating in individual and collective exhibitions hosted by galleries and institutions in Europe and America; Mall Galleries, London, UK. TEA, Contemporary Art Centre, Tenerife.
The Fludde Festival. Faversham, Canterbury, Kent, UK. Instituto Cabrera Pinto, Government of the Canary Islands Exhibition Hall, Herraiz Gallery, Madrid. Lugar_0, Corredor Cultural Colonia Roma, Mexico. Sintra Art Centre, Portugal. Intersección Arte Contemporáneo, San Miguel de Allende. Mexico. FIA International Art Fair, Caracas, Venezuela. Kunsthaus Miami Contemporary Art Space, Miami. Sotavento Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela. Contex, Art Miami. BARCU International Art and Culture Fair, Colombia. "El Grupo de los Dieciséis" Auction, Mexico City, Mexico.
According to the Galician art critic, David Barro: "In the works of Luis Kerch, the landscape blurs away and the image is destroyed to trigger the imagination. All things pictorial are led to their absolute boundary. That is why there is always something beyond what we can see, and experience is overtaken by vertigo. A reality that we neither see nor can describe, but the existence of which we are able to deduce."
Kerch currently divides his time working in Spain and Mexico. He plans to return to the English countryside to continue with his artworks and present them in the Caxton Contemporary Gallery, Whitstable, Kent, UK.
TEJIENDO LA LUZ
@osoparadoartPara mi las pinturas de Luis Kerch no son meras representaciones de paisajes externos, sino expresiones directas del estado interno emocional del artista. Cada trazo de su pincel es una meditación profunda. Luis parece un filósofo de la luz, donde la luz misma se presenta y representa en sus cuadros como la reina de todos los colores.
Los lienzos actúan como contenedores que narran su biografía, tejida con veladuras meditativas del paisaje. Sus abstracciones parecen intentos de elevar la realidad hacia un mundo numinoso, buscando darle un lenguaje a lo inefable del paisaje. Sus obras son la extensión de sus emociones, de sus viajes, y de sus lentes de percepción de esta realidad.
Luis nos muestra cómo ve el mundo, enamorado de la luz de manera poética y sublime. Es como si habitara dentro de sus pinturas con una maestría genial que nos lleva a cuestionar la misma realidad, creando una especie de sonata hacia la luz.
WEAVING LIGHT
@osoparadoartFor me, Luis Kerch's paintings are not mere representations of external landscapes, but direct expressions of the artist's internal emotional state. Each brushstroke is a profound meditation. Luis seems like a philosopher of light, where light itself presents and represents itself in his paintings as the queen of all colors.
The canvases act as containers that narrate his biography, woven with meditative veils of the landscape. His abstractions appear to be attempts to elevate reality to a numinous world, seeking to give language to the ineffable landscape. His works are an extension of his emotions, travels, and perception lenses of this reality.
Luis shows us how he sees the world, poetically and sublimely in love with light. It's as if he inhabits his paintings with genius mastery, leading us to question reality itself, creating a sonata to light.
EDUCATION
1986 - 1990
Master of Science
in Communication Design.
Pratt Institute Brooklyn,
New York, USA-
1981 - 1985
Bachelor of Fine Arts.
University of Miami,
Florida. USA-
SOLO SHOWS
2024
Y la arena tenía el tono más claro.
Drexel Galería. Monterrey, México
2023
Perception.
ATC Gallery. Tenerife, Canay Islands, Spain.
2022
Inner Landscapes: Lights & Colors of Los Cabos.
Alfredo Ginocchio Gallery. Baja California, México.
2019
Burning Aura. The pictorial persistence of
landscape. Cultural Center of Spain in Mexico.
2019
From the island.
Herraiz Gallery. Madrid, Spain.
2018
From the southern islands.
Intersección Arte Contemporaneo,
San Miguel de Allende. México.
2018
From the southern islands.
Alfredo Ginocchio Gallery., CDM México.
2017
From the southern islands.
Intersección Arte Contemporaneo,
San Miguel de Allende. México.
2016
Light, horizon and wall.
Instituto Cabrera Pinto.
Gallery of the Government of the Canary Islands,
La Lagun. Tenerife, Spain.
2016
Color
Herraiz Gallery. Madrid, España.
2014
Deconstructed objectivity.
Place_0. Cultural Corridor Colonia Roma, Mexico.
2014
Herráiz Gallery. Madrid, Spain.
2013
The imagined garden.
2013
Monserrate Palace, Sintra, Portugal.
Athenaeum of La Laguna. Tenerife, Spain.
2012
Macula Art Gallery. S/C Tenerife of Tenerife, Spain.
2011
Silver Braço Factory. Lisbon Portugal.
2011
Cabrera Pinto Institute. Chamber of the
Government of the Canary Islands. Spain.
2010
A journey through memory.
Preservation Art Gallery. Massachusetts, USA.
2009
Kunsthaus Miami Contemporary Art Space,
Miami, Florida, USA.
2009
With the naked eye.
Sala MAC (Casa Elder).
Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Tenerife, Spain.
2000
A Collage of Memory.
Nakatani Gallery. Mexico City, Mexico.
1999
A Collage of Memory.
Ars Forum Gallery. Caracas Venezuela
1996
Caja Canarias Art Room.
La Laguna, Tenerife. Spain.
1993
Recent Works.
Sotavento Gallery, Caracas. Venezuela.
1990
Graduate Gallery.
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
1985
B.F.A. Exhibition, The New Gallery, University of
Miami. Florida, USA.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Summer Shorts.
ATC Gallery, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain.
2020
Paintings.
Drexel Gallery, Monterrey. Mexico.
2016
Art Miami. Context.
Alfredo Ginocchio Gallery (Mex), Miami.
2016
Preach Art. CUC.
Cultural University Center.
Autonomous University of Mexico. Mexco City
2015
Basel, ArtMiami.Context.
Alfredo Ginocchio Gallery
(Mex), Miami, Florida, USA.
2015
Auction The Group of Sixteen.
City of Mexico, Mexico.
2014
ArtMiami. Context.
Alfredo Ginocchio Gallery
(Mexican). Miami, Florida, USA.
2014
BARCU International Art Fair and Culture.
Ginocchio Gallery (Mex). Bogota,
2014
FIA Ibero-American Art Fair.
Alfredo Ginocchio Gallery (Mex). Caracas.
2014
La Aurora Art Center.
San Miguel de Allende. Mexico.
2014
Genealogy of color.
Canarian Government exhibition. Tenerife. Spain.
2013
Colors.
Herraiz Gallery. Madrid, Spain.
2012
Room art fair.
Victor Zurita. Madrid, Spain.
2012
Finalist in the international contest of
painting and sculpture. "The Threadneedle Prize
For Painting & Sculpture 2012." (Selected from
4000 works) Mall Galleries, London, UK.
2011
The Fludde Festival.
Faversham, Canterbury, Kent. United Kingdom.
2009
All foreign bodies.
Hardcore Art Contemporary Space.
Miami, Florida, USA.
2009
TEA Collective. Loro Parque Foundation.
Tenerife, Spain
2009
Cultural Passenger.
Vision Art Gallery. Miami,
Florida, United States.
2002
Group Show "7X7." Art Room
The Caixa. The lagoon. Tenerife, Spain.
1996
Regional Biennial of Fine Arts. Center
of Art La Recova. Tenerife, Spain.
1995
Collective Exhibition. Phoenix Gallery. New York,
New York. USA
1995
LIII National Salon "Arturo Michelena".
Athenaeum of Valencia. Prize: Monsanto.
Valencia. Venezuela.
1995
Perceptions and Objects.
Venezuelan Art Center, New York, New York. USA
1995
Perceptions and Objects.
Embassy of Venezuela, Washington DC, USA
1994
Small Formats. Gallery Los Toldos,
Monterrey Mexico.
1994
Collective, Alberto Misrachi Gallery.
Mexico City, Mexico.
1994
Fifth Salon of Drawing. arts museum
Visuals Alejandro Otero. Caracas.
1994
Three Looks a Reality.
Paulina Rielof Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
1992
Limited Editions. Leeward Gallery,
Caracas Venezuela.
1991
Art and City Hall:
Museum of Arts Visuals Alejandro Otero.
Caracas, Venezuela.
Venezuelan Center of Culture. Bogota, Colombia.
House of Culture, Bogota, Colombia.
Venezuelan Embassy in Washington
House of Culture, San José, Costa Rica
1991
Re-Mozart-E. Sotavento Gallery,
Caracas,Venezuela.
1990
Tribute to Páez.
Venezuelan Consulate. New York, USA.
1985
The Miami Herald. The Lowe Museum,
Coral Gables, Florida, United States.
Obra representada en colecciones.
La Colección Rucandio (El Pais, Madrid)
www.torrededonborja.es
La Colección de Arte de Presidencia
del Gobierno de Canarias
Entre otros.