Gabriel de la Mora, Right-Left, 2017
Obsidiana tallada a mano / Hand carved obsidian
14.5 x 83 x 5.5 cm / 5.70 x 32.67 x 2.16 inches
RIGH Dimensions: 14.5 x 40.5 x 5.5 cm/ 5.70 x 15.94 x 2.16 inches
LEFT Dimensions: 15.1 x 42.5 x 5.5 cm / 5.94 x 16.73 x 2.16 inches
| Please join us on Thursday, July 8 from 6-8pm for our first in-person opening reception following the pandemic outbreak. As Ximena Gama explains, «The question that inspired this exhibition is how to investigate the relationship that exists between the image and the word, between the work of a visual artist and that of a writer. These two mediums have always been considered opposite disciplines, and tradition has reduced both to their use value. Words are merely an explanation or translation of art, and the image’s sole objective is to illustrate discourse. To accept their incompatibility, however, ignores their poetic power and their capacity, when they dialogue with each other, to inspire imagination and to create a new reality. This is precisely the idea behind Subtext, an exhibition that brings together a series of contemporary artists from Argentina to Mexico who have straddled this border in order to go beyond it. It was on this border between words and images that these artists found a way to approach and understand the tumultuous social reality of Latin America. In their work, word and text combine to become a vehicle that contaminates the formal purity of conceptual art and thus adds a gesture of political criticism to their work.» For more information, please email William Isbell at william@sicardi.com or Monica Hernández at monica@sicardi.com or call 713.529.1313. |
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RIGHT – LEFT, 2017, Obsidiana tallada a mano / Hand carved obsidian, 14.5 x 83 x 5.5 cm / 5.70 x 32.67 x 2.16 inches.
Gabriel de la Mora 