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Mystical in it’s discipline

Gabriel de la Mora is best known for constructing visual works from found, discarded, and obsolete objects, such as eggshells and shoe soles.   De la Mora describes these objects, which have outlived their usefulness, as caches for historical information about everyday life. In his exhibition at The Drawing Center, De la Mora will present an installation of fifty-five pairs of found speaker screens.   For Gabriel de la Mora the artwork already exists before the artist, and therefore it is not his role to either create or destroy, but merely to transform. By repurposing debris salvaged from flea markets and antique shops, de la Mora creates alchemical works that both prescribe to the object specificity set by the precedents of Minimalism and Abstraction in terms of form, and quietly engage with the figurative through their content.
Worn soles of shoes, damaged photographs, matchboxes and found paintings are passed through a process of pentimento – of reworking, erasing and altering – generating palimpsest works that convey the effects of the passage of time, natural elements and histories of use; galvanising these narratives through a regulated surface. With a working methodology that is as mystical as it is disciplined, de la Mora’s use of repetition connects with notions of Zen philosophy, whereby recurrent actions lead to a meditative practice. These, in turn, have the power to decelerate time; or in this instance, suspend it. Recent solo exhibitions include: Gabriel de la Mora: Entropías, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, Mexico (2018), Crystals of Inevidence, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX, USA (2017), Gabriel de la Mora: Sound inscriptions on fabric, The Drawing Center, New York, USA (2016); Galería OMR, Mexico City, Mexico (2015); Lo que no vemos lo que nos mira, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico (2014); Lucíferos, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, USA (2014); Señales Aleatorias/Ruido Blanco, Museo de Arte de Sonora (MUSAS), Mexico (2012); Exposición Panamericana, NC-arte, Bogotá, Colombia (2012); Ruido Blanco / White Noise, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (MACO), Oaxaca, Mexico (2011); Frágil/Fragile, Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA), Long Beach, USA (2011).
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