Jorge Jobim: Fantastical Autonomy
6th March, 2025 – 10th April, 2025
Tache
33 Percy Street
London W1T 2DF
Tache is a new contemporary gallery dedicated to nurturing, supporting, and showcasing emerging artists. Located in London’s Fitzrovia, home to a vibrant artistic community, the gallery has been founded with the aim of dismantling the barriers that many artists face in their early-career development.
Inspired by the experimental spirit of London’s degree shows, Tache will present a breadth
of international, distinct and ambitious practices, providing artists with their first solo
presentation or gallery exhibition. By offering comprehensive support – through advocacy,
mentorship, and an artist-first commission model – the gallery aims to create an uncompromising environment for artistic growth and experimentation.
The curatorial programme will debut with Fantastical Autonomy, a solo exhibition of new and recent works by painter, photographer and jazz musician Jorge Jobim. Running from 7th March to 10th April 2025, the exhibition features a spectrum of large-scale oil paintings defined by their colourful palettes and psychedelic compositions. Working under his alter-ego, Jobim’s works wrestle with the construct of self; his practice is guided by a quest for understanding his external world and internal conflicts.
By embracing spontaneity and the unconscious in his artistic process, each composition is
a dialogue between intention and chance, performance and introspection, clarity and psychedelia. For Jobim, painting and playing jazz are deeply intertwined – each is a
performative act, and one aids the other. As a result, there is an inherent musicality in the
works, where patterns and shapes collide in a dance of visual harmonics, weaving recurrent motifs such as branches and octopuses that represent Jobim’s personal entanglements.
A 10-meter-long canvas will be suspended from the gallery ceiling, with seating placed
beneath it to encourage visitors to engage and spend time with the artwork. In addition,
four photographs will be presented.
Captured at Speakers Corner in London and Tinghir in Morocco, the images are bathed in bright light, creating a dreamlike quality that echoes Jobim’s distinctive painting style. For the artist, photography is a way to connect with himself, providing a sense of presence and grounding. Discussing his practice more broadly, he adds: “I view the self as a fire – something you can’t get too close to or define by shape. My practice fuels this fire, allowing it to radiate while keeping it from spreading untamed.”
The gallery and exhibition launch will take place on Thursday 6 March, 6 – 8pm, and will
include a live jazz performance by Jorge Jobim.
Jorge Jobim: Fantastical Autonomy opens on the 6th of March, 2025 until the 10th of April, 2025 at Tache
©2025 Tache
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