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 Eleanore Antin 
 Siegfried Anzinger 
 Sergia Avveduti 
 John Dugdale 
 Evergon 
 Andrea Fogli 
 Javier Gil 
 John Hilliard 
 Ian Knap 
 Jiri Kolar 
 Milan Kunc 
 Louise Lawler 
 Carlo Maria Mariani 
 Claudio Massini 
 Franco Mello 
 Yasumasa Morimura 
 Vik Muniz 
 Ugo Nespolo 
 Luigi Ontani 
 John O'Reilly 
 Laura Padgett 
 Vettor Pisani 
 Anne e Patrick Poirier 
 Arnulf Rainer 
 Roxy in the Box 
 Salvo 
 Stefano Scheda 
 Marco Silombria 
 Nancy Spero 
 Olga Tobreluts 
 Elmar Trenkwalder 
 Andy Warhol 
 Michael Ziegler 

 
 
   | Javier Gil    

Born in 1961, Montevideo, Uruguay. He lives and works in Madrid.

 
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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.