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Artist: Jorge Tacla (b. 1958)

Like much of Tacla’s work, his paintings represent a space of social rupture. These works situate themselves in the joints of a new architecture that arises in the wake of catastrophe—natural or man-made. Tacla perceives the devastation that results from such events as an opportunity to investigate structural systems that would otherwise remain unseen. To signify such unsettled worlds, he uses pictorial languages that are obsessive: sometimes repeating the images, sometimes repeating the same gesture in the same space many times until the visual register is analogous to the trauma that prompts it. 
Tacla illuminates the variability of identity for victim and aggressor -an agent who is disassociated from his or her own identity- and the complexity of the assessment of guilt. These critical issues, and their situation in the larger, collective human experience, are the defining theoretical inquiries of Tacla's work.
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Jorge Tacla
Untitled, 1990

Oil and graphite on Hanji paper

64.875 x 51.875 in

(164.78 x 131.76 cm)

Center Museum California Center for the Arts, Escondido

Escondido, California

Artist: Jorge Tacla (b. 1958)