JUAN PABLO PLAZAS
SUNBAKER´S REVERIE 
FEBRUARY 1  - MARCH 2, 2024
CHAUFFEUR SYDNEY

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Sunbaker´s Reverie
Watercolour and pencil on folded carson paper, tape, museum glass, board, wood frame, unique 52 x 40 cm
2023
Available to purchase 

Plazas is known to break through the ‘dead normal everyday object’ and invites us to comprehend objects as animated living matter. For his first solo exhibition in Sydney, Juan Pablo Plazas turns his lavish attention to the iconic Australian image, Sunbaker (1937) by Max Dupain.

From body representation to perceptual depiction how young Brussels based Colombian artist Juan Pablo Plazas translates Dupain´s iconic image into a series of sculpture and drawings to question social awareness and challenge the imagination.

Selected solo exhibitions include S.M.A.K, Gent, CENTRALE for Contemporary Art, Brussels, Bureau des Realities, Brussels, Hector, Mexico City, CRISPR, Bogota, Mieke Van Schaijk  s-Hertogenbosch and Double Sejour, Paris. Plazas will debut in the US at Open Source, New York in 2025. 

Public collections include Frederic de Goldschmidt Collection Brussels and Oliver Vandenberge Collection, Belgium. Plazas first mongraph was published by Posture Editions, Belgium in 2021.

Abs In Your Face (The Intruder)
2018
foam torso, polyester cap, rubber, cotton thread
57 x 35 x 16 cm
Performance, wearable sculpture
image courtesy of the artist

installation view
images courtesy of MIchael Waite

Srogenoue Soundr
2018
Paper, cardboard, rubber, thread, metal
12 x 22 x 10 cm





One Hand as a Clamp, as Bacteria On It's Own
Pencil and watercolour on paper, blue tape, unframed
30 x 42 cm
2024



Sunbaker's Awakening, An Eye Over The Head
Pencil and watercolour on carson paper, blue tape, unframed
30 x 42 cm 
2024

Framing available please contact the gallery to discuss. 

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