MY NAME IS JAVIER VELARDE (1986), VISUAL ARTIST AND DESIGNER BASED IN PONTONES, A SMALL TOWN IN CANTABRIA, NORTHERN SPAIN.
TRAINED IN FINE ARTS IN MADRID, WITH A PERSONAL PROJECT THAT MOVED BETWEEN PAINTING AND DRAWING, I BEGAN TO EXPLORE THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT THE TEXTILE WORLD OFFERED ME. THUS, AFTER A DEEP STUDY OF SHAPES AND COLOR AND THE INTENTION OF GIVING A UTILITARIAN SENSE TO MY PLASTIC PRODUCTION, I BEGAN A NEW PATH AS A DESIGNER OF CARPETS AND TEXTILES.
Stepping on a carpet or sinking your feet into a piece of artwork
AT A FORMAL LEVEL ALL THIS TRANSLATES INTO A SERIES OF WORKS, MOSTLY ASSEMBLAGES, WHERE FROM THE GAME AS A WAY OF WORKING AND THE BOOK AS A DOMESTIC ELEMENT OF PRETEXT, I CREATE THESE “DOMESTIC NATURES”. BOOKS THAT TWIST, INTERMINGLE, REVEAL AND EXPAND, CREATING MOVEMENTS AND FORMS OF THE NATURAL.
IN 2015 I UNDERTOOK A PROJECT THAT WOULD CONSIST OF TRANSFERRING MY PICTORIAL WORK ON CARPETS, BLURRING THE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN THE ARTISTIC AND THE FUNCTIONAL OBJECT.
Always in dialogue with my pictorial production, since then I have worked on collections in which I try to reinterpret languages of nature: layers, strata and veins become artistic accidents. Shapes, surfaces and textures that transcend the domestic sphere to suggest a journey, an experience.
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