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CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
LandEscape meets
José Galant An interview by Katherine Williams, curator and Josh Ryder, curator landescape@europe.com
Artist José Galant's work elaborated a discourse between notions of the “natural” and the “industrial” that engages the viewer. In his long term project entitled Imaginary Destinations, that we'll be discussing in the following pages, he challenges the relationship between the viewers' limbic parameters and their cultural substratum to induce them to produce new perceptions. Drawing from StemPunk imagery, Galant's approach deconstructs symbols to challenge the relationship between the viewers' most limbic parameters and their cultural substratum to induce them to produce new perceptions and thus obtain a new perspective on the world. One of the most impressive aspects of Galant's work is the way it accomplishes a successful attempt to create the “Imaginary destinations” to create a parody or fine amusement but without any lack of respect for people. We are very pleased to introduce our readers to his multifaceted artistic production. Hello José and welcome to LandEscape: before starting to elaborate about your artistic production would you like to tell us something about your background? You have a solid formal training: among your studies, you attended the Fine Arts and Graphic Design School "Groc” in Barcelona as a painting and ceramics major and you later earned your DNAP from the École supérieure des Beaux Arts de Perpignan in Fine Arts. How do your studies influence your evolution as an artist? And in particular, how does your cultural substratum dued to your Spanish roots inform the way you relate yourself to art making and to the aesthetic problem in general?
First of all, I would like to thank you for giving me this opportunity to introduce myself and my artistic
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background. I have always been interested on all of these matter related to art, I began painting canvases and graffiti at the beginning of the nineties, and in 1993 I began studying Applied Arts and Artistic Professions at Groc School (Barcelona, Spain). Studying at this school was a very enriching experience, because allowed me the opportunity to stretch my skills across the various fields, learning various techniques, experimenting with materials, etc. A training that