From October 14th to 29th, 2022, La Fonderia Art Gallery presents Runan Caycu, a solo exhibition by James Vega.
Curated by La Mosca APS—a Florentine cultural association dedicated to addressing and exploring social issues through the medium of art—the exhibition showcases a series of works from different phases of the artist’s career. Here, painting manifests as a privileged modality not only for expression but also for expanding the subjectivity of James Vega the artist, and even before that, James Vega the man. “Runan Caycu” is an expression of Quechua origin, a native South American language typical of the Andean region, which translates to “I am a man.” The artworks on display, forming a journey through subjects portrayed in their emotional movements, gestures, and features that echo those of the author, reflect his inner gaze reproduced on the canvases.
Shapes, faces, and gazes with bold yet blurred lines re-emerge from an avowedly somber phase of artistic production, juxtaposed with works accumulated over time as the result of years of sketches, drawings, and suspended pieces.
James Vega is an artist of Latin American origin, currently active between Florence and Poggibonsi. A street artist and painter in the broadest sense, he paints on supports of all kinds, focusing his work on elements and figures connected to nature, life, and death. The pure passion for painting that defines him makes him an artist naturally devoted to experimenting with different mediums and techniques, bound together by his distinctive stroke and the deep humanity of his subjects, as demonstrated by the works in the exhibition.