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Artist Statement for Julio Aguilera
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...Yet it is clear that Aguilera, who refers to Picasso as “The Old Man,” sees the Spanish master as a spiritual father. And indeed the spirit of Picasso is present in the bold figurative distortions of Aguilera’s paintings and sculptures of bulls and horses; of musicians and harlequins; of minotaurs and female nudes with sensually swelling contours.
However, even when locating himself firmly within the traditions of the masters he admires (as he does in his bows to Hispanic forbearers like Goya and Velasquez such as his witty contemporary reworking of “La Infanta”) Julio Aguilera emerges as a highly original and thoroughly committed talent. Indeed, Aguilera has remained true to his calling and his unique vision ever since, as impoverished five year old shining shoes in the streets of Caracas, Venezuela, a local painter made him the gift of a handful of half squeezed tubes of oil paint. Thus began a journey that has brought Julio Aguilera to his present prominence as arguably the most dynamic artist from Venezuela at work in the United States today. –Ed McCormack
Gallery&Studio March 2005
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