Land scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
LandEscape meets
Ivan Juarez
An interview by Katherine Williams, curator and Josh Ryder, curator landescape @ europe. com
Exploring the expressive potential of a wide variety of materials, artist and architect Ivan Juarez ' s work inquiries into the themes of contemporary culture, urbanism, collective memory. His approach considers the vital relationship between direct experience and visual intepretation, to draw the viewers through a multilayered journey. In his work Coexistence, that we ' ll be discussing in the following pages he encapsulated both traditional heritage and unconventional sensitiveness, to trigger the viewers ' perceptual parameters. One of the most impressive aspects of Juarez ' s work is the way it accomplishes the difficult task of unveiling the relationship between art and function and how this connection can be expressed on the built and natural environment: we are very pleased to introduce our readers to his stimulating and multifaceted artistic production.
Hello Ivan and welcome to LandEscape: we would start this interview with a couple of questions about your multifaceted background. You are trained as an architect: how do this experience of formal training influence the way you currently conceive and produce your works? And in particular, how does your cultural substratum inform the way you relate yourself to the aesthetic problem in general?
The primary focus of my artistic activities is to advance and build knowledge from my practice and academic research experience. I am interested in artistic conception, as a field of experimentation, knowledge building and continuous learning through the exploration between architecture, public art and cultural and ecological systems. My work doesn ยด t begin only with architecture, but is also nourished by different artistic sources. Cinema, music, dance painting or literature are on many occasions what give guidelines to my