Jaime Velázquez, from Cádiz but a resident of La Línea, is the protagonist of ‘A Game of Gods’, the exhibition with which the Sala Rivadavia in the capital, which depends on the Provincial Council, closes its programme for this year 2024; it can be visited free of charge until 21 December.
The artist himself points out about this project, which he is presenting for the first time and which has classical mythology as the thematic support for each painting, that ‘each work shows the reality in which I live and the chaotic future in which we are advancing’.
Considered a ‘young emerging artist’, Velázquez holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Seville, where he specialised in serigraphy, engraving, lithography and graphic design, and has also obtained a master's degree in Heritage, Archaeology and Maritime History from the University of Cadiz. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions but has also exhibited individually. His work ‘is a visual testimony of the complexity of the contemporary world and his ability to address, in a powerful way, current issues, always seeking to provoke reflection in the viewer’.
‘EXPLORES THEMES OF GREAT RELEVANCE’.
The exhibition that can be seen these weeks in Cádiz is made up of works characterised, mainly, by the colourful gradients that Velázquez includes in the backgrounds of his compositions, and which reflect ‘the context and the times in which he has had to live’.
‘As the sensitive artist that he is, through his visual narrative he explores themes of great relevance, such as immigration, questions of identity in all its dimensions, globalisation and new technologies’, said the provincial deputy for Culture, Vanesa Beltrán, at the presentation of the exhibition.
