| Javier Gil
Born in 1961, Montevideo, Uruguay. He lives and works in Madrid.
El Municipio (Ciudades Fantasticas), 2002
pastel on paper
100 x 140 cm
Courtesy Javier Gil
Since the beginning my drawings remain those lost empires of the past,
Greeks, Romans, Egyptians or anyone who wants to build huge buildings to protect human believes from the power of time,
the city where I was born is full of fake examples, because we South-Americans always wanted to recover what we lost after the colonisation,
identity, who do we come from.
I know it is just a simple pretension, but accepting this question we respect our nature and the most important, have a reason to develop creation.
J. G.