Jose Dávila: Grava Suelta
9 November–17 December 2022
OMR
Córdoba 100
Roma Norte
Mexico City, D.F. 06700
Mexico
Grava Suelta (Loose Gravel), Jose Dávila‘s fourth solo exhibition OMR, where under a new body of work, the artist brings together ideas circulating in his work for the last few years: form, memory, desire, liberation, registration, doubt and discovery. These become relevant through a review of the history of art and structural institutions with the force of gravity. The past and the present are traversed through the search and the fight for a world where happiness—and beauty—can take place.
Courtesy the artist and OMR. Photo: © Ramiro Chaves.
The new series of paintings deals specifically with a recurring theme worked on by artists such as Hilma af Klint, Walter Dexel, Willys de Castro and Sonia Delaunay: the circle. They are works that follow on a path already walked, using the graphic and pictorial history of the geometric form as the very raw material of the work.
Simultaneously intertwined, a new series of cut-outs derive from abstract paintings by Roy Lichtenstein. The works of the American artist are meta, in the sense that they are paintings on the pictorial, and the cut-outs presented by Dávila are abstractions on the abstract: zoom-ins of Lichtenstein’s work, where the original trace disappears to leave only a suggestion of the origin.
Courtesy the artist and OMR. Photo: © Ramiro Chaves.
The series of sculptures that Dávila presents at OMR focuses on themes that have been consistently prevalent throughout his career; a visual articulation of the force of gravity through precarious balance and a desire to draw attention to historical references in art. For Dávila, the world that surrounds us contains an infinity of geometric structures and sculpture must behave as an adhesive territory where not only weights are negotiated, but also the expressiveness of matter, fragility and hardness, resistance and adaptability, or the symbolic character of the present and the past, through the objects and the stories they represent.
Through his multidisciplinary approach to creation and perceptual investigation, Dávila immerses viewers in the carefully constructed, expansive, and geometric worlds for this exhibition.
©2022 Jose Dávila, OMR, Ramiro Chaves
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