132. National Holiday [1980]

Emerging from the Bucharest avant-garde of the 1930s, Jules Perahim would eventually settle amidst the artistic frenzy of Paris. Often associated with prominent names like Victor Brauner, Gherasim Luca, Sașa Pană, Urmuz, or Gellu Naum, Perahim was a constant presence within Romanian artistic circles resonating with echoes from Berlin, Prague, Paris, or Moscow. Although he never claimed the “surrealist” title, his work is, par excellence, the result of this artistic movement's influence. The abstract continent of his imagination reveals, especially in his second creative phase, partially humanized protagonists, leaning towards surrealism's specific demineralization. The chimeras with eccentric traits inhabit an uncertain chronotropic, whose coordinates are only known to the author. The distortion of forms - juxtaposed or interconnected by compositional artifices would become a hallmark of the graphic and pictorial manner adopted by the artist. Perahim creates dream-compositions, devoid of a well-defined horizon line and populated by fabulous characters. The spectacle of cut-out patterns and beings, to which he attributes random forms, leads to vast possibilities for interpreting his works. Whether they have human, animal, or vegetal valences, his characters become authentic chimeric representations. Perahim works with photographic precision, using more or less bizarre juxtapositions and images drawn from his subconscious.

References

JAGUER, Edouard, "Perahim," in "Dada/Surrealism", no. 20, 2015, pp. 1-19.

Dimensions

width 26 cm, height 34 cm

Description

oil on canvas glued on cardboard, signed and dated bottom right, in black, "Perahim, (19)80"

Dating

1980

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