“Stimulus Package”. A solo exhibition by DIXON in RAS Gallery (Barcelone).
Opening Thursday December 9th from 7.30 to 10 pm. Exhibition running from December 9th to January 8th.
Organized by Suben. Supported by Goorilo, Montana Colors, Moritz, Modart, Staf, Zona de Obras, Print it!, Ras.
Juan Carlos Noria (Caracas, Venezuela, 1968) AKA Dixon is a cultural agitator with a social consciousness that borders political activism. An artist in search of new subjects of representation, styles and techniques: art under investigation.
Ironic, archetypal and funny. His imagery brings us closer to what he believes deserves and needs to be shown in this common universe to us all, where we appear weak if not hypocritical. Re-moralizing art against social injustice, economy, power, consumer society, sex, culture… and the corruptive process latent in all these.
A confluence of cultures and contradictions, Juan Carlos Noria is a painter for our times. He carries his Latin American sensibility on his sleeve. As a teen growing up in Ottawa (Canada), he became an accomplished figure skater. Grace and lines were an obsession. So, too were his ideas of subversion.
He fell out of skating after hitting the rigid class structure of the sport, finding comfort (and discomfort) in visual art, on the streets with a paint can, postering, skateboarding, fleeing police. A strange opportunity then came. A world tour with Disney on Ice. It heightened his sense of absurdity, humour and anger, sharpened his visual and social awareness.
True to subversive nature, he undercuts his own personality allowing himself to explore two other persons and visual styles. He sometimes works under the pseudonyms of Royal or Dixon. Yet, he is himself singular Juan. He is without pretence, full of concern for others, quick to laugh and quicker to paint something ripe.
If you wanna know more about Dixon, check an interesting interview via Format Mag.
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