JUAN ARAUJO 'Clouds and Shadows on Mars'

Since 1998, Juan Araujo has been including appropriations of familiar elements of modern and postmodern culture and environment into his works. The Venezuelan artist started out by creating paintings that studied the history of art, reproducing artists’ works he found in books, catalogues and online. Over the last few decades, Araujo has intensely investigated the history of Western culture, art history and modernism in his practice. His works provide a complex network of connections and references, and they often point our attention towards well-known architects or artists.