Paseo is a collection of vignettes that, when displayed together, suggest the specific moments of a graphic novel; the expanded details that create an atmosphere or build a character. Grouped on the wall, we see a statue of Queen Victoria with four perched doves, creatures that manage to make use of public monuments, while simultaneously give them an air of hopeless abandonment. We find a corpulent man without a shirt sitting on a step, with defined lines of toasted color that make his shirt visible in its absence. We observe anatomical studies of mummies, produced in the museum. Corzo bets on quantity, his observations oscillate between the banal and the monumental, detritus from the street and protected objects in museum showcases. He first creates the drawings with a marker and then adds color using digital techniques, transporting his works into the realm of animation and comics. Each print is a limited edition and, like its subject, its production process reflects a coexistence between the accessible and reproducible image and the collectable object.
These images, captured during the artist's free time, were born in the tradition of the Sunday painter. Yet Corzo is not an amateur, but a formally trained chronicler who balances artistic production with a working life. Paseo is highly autobiographical, with the sum of his drawings and artifacts pointing to a larger story that is still developing and waiting to be compiled.
Javier Corzo was born in Tenerife in 1986 and has spent the last seven years working as an illustrator and 3D modeler in Madrid, Leamington Spa (UK) and Malta. He graduated from the University of La Laguna, Tenerife, in 2010. Some of the exhibitions he has participated in are: "What's Up Glitches", TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife (2016); "Colectiva", Mad is Mad, Madrid (2011); "TNF-VLC", La Perrera Gallery, Valencia (2010), "Por una cartografía de lo intermedio", L'Estruch, Sabadell (2009); "Ikas-Art", university art meeting, Bilbao (2008); "8.1 Distorsiones. Documents. Naderías y Relatos", CAAM Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (2007).
