"XXL XXS"
JAN HENDRIX

The reflection of Jan Hendrix is innate, an internal philosophical quality about the harmony of the ephemeral and the continuously transforming. With an insatiable vision of nature, this artist of Dutch origin illuminates the union of pure forms, the infinite possible combinations, the contrasts and movement within an extensive visual spectrum. His work is a map that creates a new geography of the world ordered by his looking.The thorough examination of a traveler, the precision of the observer, the research, the drawing and the codification of beings are processes integrated into his method, which always reverts to the creation of new languages.The result is a place between known and unknown, the change of a spatial and chromatic vision to another dimension relative to things.“XXL XXS” originates from the exuberant life of the Lacandon Rainforest. His visits during the last several years have enabled him to work with different collections of the extensive vegetation. The union of the classes often arises because of the necessity to survive. The Lacandon Rainforest stretches out in that heartland to which the annihilating knife of man aspires. In Chiapas, hope agonizes, nature is worn out, it is a nostalgic adieu and not easily controlled.

The recuperation of the sinuous forms of the seeds of this region of Chiapas go from drawing and then into the volumes of cast bronze or checkerboards of light. The abandonment of the forest environment and the heaviness of the new substance create a gelid landscape. The black rain, of silhouettes and shadows with squash-like forms, swollen points or bellies, fall like a ambiguous figure, warlike or friendly, where the nucleus of life welcomes by chance the coming of death.

- Ana Quiroz