ZAC YEATES
`JUST ANOTHER DAY´
The Curators Room – La Oficina Barcelona, presents the first solo show of the young artist Zac Yeates in Spain.
OUR EVERYDAY LIFE HIDES SMALL MOMENTS THAT COULD END UP DEFINING AN ‘EXTRAORDINARY LIFE’.
“Just another day” is shaped as a eulogy to our lives that squeezes in its maximum expression, those daily actions that could pass “without pain or glory” in our routine.
An inevitable grimace of amusement appears on our face when we watch Zac’s work, an authentic aesthetic monologue that seems to come out of the purest Stand-Up comedy and where its protagonists overflow us with all their wit.
Direct, brief, under a theme and with a protagonist as the axis of the whole work, welcome to this great show, the one where the faces become bodies, where the elements come to life and where a gesture becomes an intention.
Totally disproportionate physiognomies, faces-mouths with thick lips and big eyes, characters out of the “nonsense” but that awaken in us an inexplicable closeness, perhaps in the satire of their lives we recognize something familiar.
Situations and common things plagued with elements and “pop acts” take on a significant relevance in each of these characters, who are shown to us, with their triumphs and their vulnerabilities in a totally real way, at the peak of an emotion, an event or an act. Expendable moments when it comes to narrating someone’s life, but which give off a universal humor that capture us.
A forceful and clear technique ends up bewitching us, textures and volumes explore the boundaries between painting and sculpture and almost seems to make these surreal characters corporeal.
Under the premise of “It would be fun if…” Zac Yeates generates each of these works with the conscious fullness of someone who knows how to smile at life and laugh at it, a true statement of intent, to this life: “we have come to play”.
Victoria Rivers
ZAC YEATES
`JUST ANOTHER DAY´
The Curators Room – La Oficina Barcelona, presents the first solo show of the young artist Zac Yeates in Spain.
OUR EVERYDAY LIFE HIDES SMALL MOMENTS THAT COULD END UP DEFINING AN ‘EXTRAORDINARY LIFE’.
“Just another day” is shaped as a eulogy to our lives that squeezes in its maximum expression, those daily actions that could pass “without pain or glory” in our routine.
An inevitable grimace of amusement appears on our face when we watch Zac’s work, an authentic aesthetic monologue that seems to come out of the purest Stand-Up comedy and where its protagonists overflow us with all their wit.
Direct, brief, under a theme and with a protagonist as the axis of the whole work, welcome to this great show, the one where the faces become bodies, where the elements come to life and where a gesture becomes an intention.
Totally disproportionate physiognomies, faces-mouths with thick lips and big eyes, characters out of the “nonsense” but that awaken in us an inexplicable closeness, perhaps in the satire of their lives we recognize something familiar.
Situations and common things plagued with elements and “pop acts” take on a significant relevance in each of these characters, who are shown to us, with their triumphs and their vulnerabilities in a totally real way, at the peak of an emotion, an event or an act. Expendable moments when it comes to narrating someone’s life, but which give off a universal humor that capture us.
A forceful and clear technique ends up bewitching us, textures and volumes explore the boundaries between painting and sculpture and almost seems to make these surreal characters corporeal.
Under the premise of “It would be fun if…” Zac Yeates generates each of these works with the conscious fullness of someone who knows how to smile at life and laugh at it, a true statement of intent, to this life: “we have come to play”.
Victoria Rivers
Zac Yeates
Leg and Arm Chair
Oil pastel, acrylic and gouache on canvas
110 x 90 cm
2022
Zac Yeates
Sculpting the Perfect Body
Oil pastel, acrylic and gouache
on canvas
100 x 110 cm
2022
Do All of Your Tattoos Have a Meaning?
Oil pastel, acrylic and gouache on
canvas
110 x 90 cm
2022
Zac Yeates
Do All of Your Tattoos Have a Meaning?
Oil pastel, acrylic and gouache on
canvas
110 x 90 cm
2022
Zac Yeates
Life is a Highway
Oil pastel, acrylic and gouache
on canvas
110 X 90 cm
2022
Zac Yeates (Australia, 1997) has the ability to hook the viewer at a glance. Inspired by the visual elements that he finds funny and nourishing his daily life with podcasts and comedy shows, his work gives off a direct and unmistakable humor where his protagonists live in the absurdity of everyday life.
Zac Yeates was born in Western Australia and after studying at Catalyst, Institute for Creative Arts and Technology in Berlin, he is continuing his artistic and life journey in Vilnius, Berlin, and Prague. His work has been presented in Lithuania, The Netherlands, France, and Japan.