On the close-at-hand (Sango-kaku Winter), 2020

Javier Arce’s oil paintings stretched on repurposed untreated wood culled from the artist’s countryside environment in Cantabria (northern Spain) bespeaks a pastoral esthetic beckoning study. It’s the appeal of art-making from the Barbizon school ...

Javier Arce’s oil paintings stretched on repurposed untreated wood culled from the artist’s countryside environment in Cantabria (northern Spain) bespeaks a pastoral esthetic beckoning study. It’s the appeal of art-making from the Barbizon school from the 19th century, but also contemporary influences as wide and large as gardener Gilles Clement, botanist Francis Hallé, author Richard Powers, or plant theorist and philosopher Michael Marder that imbue the artist’s work.