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My country you do not exist – Press
MY COUNTRY YOU DO NOT EXIST
Eddie Aparicio
June 14, 2019 | August 16, 2019
Eddie Aparicio: País mío no existes / My country you do not exist
June 14, 2019 | August 16, 2019
Opening: Friday, June 14, 2019, 8:00 pm
Páramo is pleased to present País mío no existes / My country you do not exist by Eddie R. Aparicio—the artists first show at the gallery.
The title of the exhibition comes from a poem by the foremost Salvadoran poet Roque Dalton called El Gran Despecho from 1969. Dalton was exiled for his political activism, and the poem asserts the fallacy of nationalism and that without the people that create a country it ceases to exist. This idea serves as an essential conceptual framework in these works by extending the concept of exile to a broader history of forced displacement in El Salvador.
Aparicio was initially drawn to rubber for its resonance with his family’s Salvadoran origin. Rubber trees and a rubber industry once thrived in El Salvador, a product of indigenous knowledge, disrupted by political violence. A previous project took the artist to El Salvador and then neighboring Guatemala in search of his raw materials. These works sit within a transnational worldview by focusing on material histories, multiplicity of site across boundaries, and collaboration with other species that hold their own types of memory.
These pieces employ a unique process that incorporates elements of painting, sculpture, printmaking, and installation. The process of creating the prints (or documents as the artist calls them) makes a mirror image of the trees capturing the growth marks, human scarring, graffiti, and environmental residue. Aparicio noticed that the history of these species of trees had a strong metaphorical connection to the same Latinx communities in those Los Angeles neighborhoods.
Characteristic of Aparicio’s practice, the pieces in this exhibition take the rubber print as a base and combine other found materials and images to create a series of works that are all singular in process. The unique formal and material decisions in each piece create an indexing of each particular site. Found couches, clothing, and blankets serve as a structural backing to the rubber prints and also add layers of materials that each has its own history of use and connection to place. What was previously linen, or canvas has been replaced in this body of work with these alternate backings as a statement in favor of totally material non-neutrality. Aparicio asserts that the clearest way to follow the traces and branches of colonialism and historical oppression is first to claim total material non-neutrality. There is no neutral position within an ecological understanding of the world where environmental justice is inextricably linked to social justice and all materials in art making (especially our bodies) are part of that conversation.
About the artist
Eddie Aparicio was born in Los Angeles in 1990. He received an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University in 2016, a BA in Studio Arts from Bard College in 2012 and has also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Southern California Institute of Architecture. His recent works address the intersection of social and environmental justice through specific use of material, sound, and multiplicity of site. He uses materials that have a strong tie to pre-hispanic cultures in Central America to document Central American communities in Los Angeles. He has exhibited at The Mistake Room, Steve Turner Gallery, Zona Maco, and Anonymous gallery among others. He has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Community Foundation, and was recently a finalist for the Artadia LA award.
For further information, please contact: media@paramogaleria.com / +52 33 3825 0921.
Press enquiries: media@paramogaleria.com / +52 33 3825 0921.
Páramo would like to extend its gratitude to Tequila 1800 Cristalino, Club de Costa and Cerveza Minerva for their collaborative support.
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My country you do not exist
MY COUNTRY YOU DO NOT EXIST
Eddie Aparicio
June 14, 2019 | August 16, 2019
ZIGGURAT/ZIGURAT – Press
ZIGGURAT / ZIGURAT
Eamon Ore-Giron
January 31 | April 3, 2020
Eamon Ore-Giron: Ziggurat / Zigurat January 31 | April 3, 2020
Opening: Friday, January 31, 2020, 8:00 pm
Páramo presents the exhibition Ziggurat / Zigurat, by Eamon Ore-Giron. A ziggurat is a shrine or temple constructed as a terraced compound of successively receding levels.
In his ongoing Infinite Regress series, including the works presented in this exhibition, Eamon Ore-Giron (b. 1973, Tucson, USA) investigates the evocative potential of abstraction and brings historical and contemporary visualities into dialogue within a precise motif. This motif consists of a central golden geometric form with brightly hued spheres that appear to pass behind and through it. The paintings use shifts in space, color, and form to create optical play, evoking diagrams of the celestial and ancient architectures.
Several of the works in this new suite of paintings make literal reference to the stepped form of the ziggurat. Each painting in the exhibition functions as a shrine or a portal of sorts, drawing the viewer in and suggesting a liminal or transitional space and a notion of axis mundi––a mythological concept representing the connection between heaven and earth.
In Ore-Giron’s own words, the Infinite Regress series is a “celebration of the emotional potential of abstraction to map the unseen topography of our inner lives and create a visual language that is both timeless and out of time”.
About the artist
Eamon Ore-Giron (b. 1973) was born in Tucson, Arizona, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Ore-Giron blends a wide range of visual styles and influences in his brightly colored abstract geometric paintings realized on raw linen and canvas.
The artist grew up in the Southwestern United States and has spent significant time in Spain, Peru (where his father is from) and Mexico. Ore-Giron’s travels, personal biography, and his formal education as a fine artist —he received an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles— have shaped his artistic vocabulary, which references Native American medicine wheels, Amazonian tapestries, the Mexican muralists, Russian Suprematism, and Latin American Concrete Art, as well as hard-edged abstraction and European modernism.
Ore-Giron also works in video and music, as part of collaborative endeavors and as a musician and DJ. He is keenly aware of the history and cross-cultural evolution of musical styles. In a similar vein, his work makes manifest a history of the transnational exchange that has informed painting. He has said that his work “originates from a certain nostalgia for a global modernism” and the notion of a universal visual language. With his comprehensive approach, which marries Latin American aesthetics and indigenous craft and folk traditions with a 20th-century avant-garde, Ore-Giron creates a unique artistic style that feels at once timeless and contemporary and resonates across cultural contexts.
Solo exhibitions have been presented at LAXART, Los Angeles (2015); Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York (2013); Pérez Art Museum Miami (2013); MUCA ROMA, Mexico City (2006); Queen’s Nails Annex, San Francisco (2005); and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia (2005). Ore-Giron’s work has been included in group shows at the SFMOMA, San Francisco; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; Prospect.3, New Orleans; and Deitch Projects, New York.
His work has been covered in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, ArtForum, ANP Quarterly, and SFAQ, among other publications.
Páramo would like to extend its gratitude to Tequila 1800 and UBS for their collaborative support.
For further information, please contact: archivo@paramogaleria.com / +52 33 3825 0921. Press enquiries: media@paramogaleria.com
New Suns – Press
NEW SUNS
Curaduría por Kris Kuramitsu
December 01, 2018 | May 31, 2019
New Suns: Curated by Kris Kuramitsu December 01, 2018 | May 31, 2019
Opening: Saturday, December 01, 2018, 8:00 pm
There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns. —Octavia E. Butler, epigram for unpublished work in progress, Parable of the Trickster.
Páramo is pleased to present New Suns—a group exhibition curated by Kris Kuramitsu with works by artists; Hangama Amiri (b. 1989), Jenny Gagalka (b. 1984), Sherin Guirguis (b. 1974), Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle (b. 1987), Nasim Hantehzadeh (b. 1988), Pearl C. Hsiung (b. 1973), Maria de los Angeles Rodriguez Jimenez (b. 1992), Naomi Lisiki (b. 1990), Tomashi Jackson (b. 1980), Gabriella Sanchez (b. 1988), and Liat Yossifor (b. 1974).
New Suns is conceived as a two-chapter incomplete survey of recent paintings by artists who radically reimagine the formal and conceptual boundaries of the medium. Informed by the reemergence of genre-specific painting exhibitions, New Suns proposes that the work of this diverse, international group of women forms a constellation that is decentered and provides space for multiple subjectivities.
The artists included in the exhibition are all currently based on the East or West Coast of the United States but maintain strong roots in places all over the globe (Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Canada, Taiwan, Cuba, the French West Indies, and Israel, among others). They site their practices in the language of portraiture, landscape, abstraction, graphic design, sculpture, installation, and performance to give new insights into the language of painting in the 21st century. At the core of their investigations is a concern with the body, the politics of representation, and the spatial sensibilities of the pictorial plane. Drawing on fantasy, history, and memory, their formal compositions shape ideas about the world that challenge art historical narratives and technical approaches. The artists each craft independent vocabularies with their own gravitational pull that point toward possibilities that only they could imagine.
The exhibition opens with the work of eight artists and continues to grow and morph during the duration of its run—introducing other artists into the exhibition and thus shifting conversations that allow visitors to experience a wide-range of perspectives around the current status of painting.
New Suns marks the first presentation of many of these artists’s work in Mexico. The exhibition is curated by Los Angeles-based curator Kris Kuramitsu.
For further information, please contact: media@paramogaleria.com / +52 33 3825 0921.
Press enquiries: media@paramogaleria.com / +52 33 3825 0921.
Páramo would like to extend its gratitude to Tequila 1800 Cristalino and Cerveza Minerva for their collaborative support.
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MEXIPUNX – Prensa
MEXIPUNX
Rubén Ortiz Torres
September 06 – 24, 2018
Rubén Ortiz Torres: MEXIPUNX September 06 – 24, 2018
Opening: Thursday, September 06, 2018, 7:30 pm
Páramo is pleased to present MEXIPUNX—a solo exhibition of early works by Mexican-born, Los Angeles-based artist Rubén Ortiz Torres (b. 1964). The exhibition is guest curated by Laureana Toledo and organized in collaboration with Doña Pancha. Special Event: Roundtable Conversation between Rubén Ortiz Torres, Daniel Guzmán and Dr. Juan Vargas. September 06, 2018, 7:30 pm Originally exhibited in 1984 at the Mexican Council of Photography as part of a series titled Jesús y los Mutantes, MEXIPUNX is a project that intimately documents the punk scene in Mexico City in the 1980’s. More so, this series of photographs traces how the subculture became a formative influence in the development of the artist’s own creative identity. As both a participant in the punk scene and a visual artist, Ortiz Torres’s works differ widely from the photojournalist documentation of punk youth and function instead like a personal visual essay that narrates his own experiences within the subculture. What emerges from this body of work is an image of punk not as a musical genre but rather as a cultural phenomenon that is at once local and global. This exhibition encompasses an expanded presentation of this body of work. Alongside the iconic photographs, a series of seldomly seen drawings the artist made of subjects and a selection of Super8 videos will also be included. Together, these works give deeper insights into this important historical moment and into the early work and practice of this renowned artist.About the artist
Rubén Ortiz Torres was born in Mexico City in 1964. Educated within the utopian models of Spanish republican anarchism, he soon confronted the tragedies and cultural clashes of the post-colonial third world. After giving up the dream of playing baseball in the major leagues, he decided to study art. He first attended one of the oldest art schools in the Americas—the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City—and later one of the newest and more experimental—CalArts in Valencia, CA. After enduring Mexico City’s earthquake and pollution, he moved to LA with a Fulbright grant to survive riots, fires, floods, more earthquakes, and Proposition 187. During all this, he has been able to produce artwork in the form of paintings, photographs, objects, installations, videos, and films. He is part of the permanent Faculty of the University of California, San Diego. He has participated in several international exhibitions and film festivals. His work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid and others. For further information, please contact: media@paramogaleria.com / +52 33 3825 0921. Press enquiries: media@paramogaleria.com / +52 33 3825 0921. Páramo would like to extend its gratitude to Centro Fotográfico Álvarez Bravo, Amigos del Lago y del CFMAB, Laureana Toledo, Doña Pancha Fest, Casa Fayette and Tequila 1800 Cristalino for their collaborative support. TAGS: #RubenOrtizTorres #MEXIPUNX #Paramo
Manuel Felguérez – Press
MANUEL FELGUÉREZ
February 03, 2018 | March 31, 2018
Manuel Felguérez: Manuel Felguérez
February 03, 2018 | March 31, 2018
Opening: Friday, February 02, 2018, 8:00 pm
Páramo and the Government of Zapopan are pleased to present Manuel Felguérez, the artist’s first solo exhibition in Guadalajara. The exhibition presents a retrospective of Felguérez’s most innovative and influential works, among them The Desire Machine, his iconic contribution in the field of performance and set design; The Aesthetic Machine, in which he pioneered the use of technology in the creative process; and The Multiple Space, which marks the introduction of volume and geometry into his sculpture.
In this important overview of his career, the gallery presents artworks that emphasize the aesthetic and conceptual contributions made in the 1970s, from biomorphic abstractions and his influential use of visual language to his work in the performing arts. The exhibition highlights The Desire Machine, his collaboration with the artist, writer and director Alejandro Jodorowsky and the Teatro Pánico. Specially created for the movie La Montaña Sagrada (The Holy Mountain) in 1973, the work will be activated for the first time in more than forty years.
In The Multiple Space (1973), Felguérez explores form, color and multiplicity of variations, in order to unfold the established spaces in art and expand painting to the sculptural plane. The infinite metamorphosis present in this body of work manages to capture the artist’s commitment to his particular abstract style, which is rooted in the belief in art as an aesthetic value and the creator of experiences.
In 1976, after obtaining a Guggenheim Fellowship, Felguérez visited Harvard University where, together with systems engineer Mayer Sasson, he pioneered the use of computers as an instrument for artistic creation. With The Aesthetic Machine, which utilized a process of coding, selection or contradiction based on the artist’s original model of mathematical drawings, Felguérez managed to multiply and reproduce selected designs and to translate the resulting “forms-ideas” into paintings and sculptures.
The Desire Machine will be activated during the weekend of March 16, 2018.
Coinciding with the exhibition and as part of the PreMACO program, Páramo extends a cordial invitation to the performance of Emanuel Tovar’s Ritos estructurales in the island of Mezcala. Based on the notebooks of José Clemente Orozco, which set forth essential aspects of formal realization such as order, foresight and geometric rigor, Tovar’s work features time, structure, space and movement as the main actors. Ritos estructurales reflects the variations and contrasts of the current context, the particularities articulated in relation with the whole. As such, it presents an alternative vision in relation to the geometric reflection and the expansion of space, which could lead to the development of new models as alternatives to the automated and mechanized system of modernity.
We find parallels in the works of Emanuel Tovar and Manuel Felguérez, two important representatives of the Mexican artists of their times, who throughout their careers have embraced experimentation with mediums and the spirit of creation, deconstruction and reinvention.
About the artist
Born in Valparaíso, Zacatecas, in 1928, when he was seven years old, he moved with his family to Mexico City. From young age, he demonstrated an inclination for the arts, but it is not up until he is 19 years old, during his first trip to Europe, when he discovers that the most important thing is the world was art; it is then that he decides to become an sculptor.
In 1949 he travels for the second time to France to study next to Ossip Zadkine at the Academy of the Grande Chaumiére in Paris, where he also frequents Brancusi’s workshop. Their experiences next to Zadkine in Paris and Zúñiga in Mexico, as well as its constant research and experimentation, give the artist the security in the handling of materials and techniques, not only in the field of sculpture, but in painting and muralism; thus finding his own language.
Since Felguérez´s first exhibition in 1958, he has participated in innumerable individual and collective exhibitions in Mexico and the world. His work is exhibited permanently in important museums and cultural venues in Mexico, as well as in countries in Europe, Asia and America, in addition to multiple private collections.
Since 1956 he has worked in the academic field; taught at the Universidad Iberoamericana, participated in the elaboration of the project to create a visual art program at the UNAM (1970), where he was teacher and researcher for the Institute of Aesthetic Research. He served as a guest researcher in Harvard University (1976) and as a visiting professor at Cornell University, in the U.S. He also ventured into the field of stage design as part of the group of Teatro de vanguardia directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky.
Throughout his career, Manuel Felguérez has been awarded several prizes and national and international recognitions, among which stand out: the Second Prize of Painting in the First Triennial of New Delhi, India (1968); the scholarship of the Foundation Guggenheim and the Grand Prize of Honor of the XIII Biennial of Sao Paulo, Brazil (1975); the National Arts Award of Mexico (1988); the appointment as Creator Emeritus for the National System of Art Creators of CONACULTA (1993); the Encomienda de la Order Isabel La Católica, of the Spanish Government (2006); the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universidad Autónoma de Mexico (2009) and the Medal Fine Arts (2015).
As a recognition of his career and artistic contribution, in 1998 the Museum of Abstract Art Manuel Felguérez is founded. The collection, in large part, was donated by the artist himself. Other cultural spaces also bear his name: the Center’s Electronic Art Gallery National of Arts, The Metropolitan Gallery in the Rectoría of the UNAM, the Municipal House of Culture of Valparaíso, Zacatecas, and the Library of The Sebastian Hotel in Vail, Colorado, USA.
For further information, please contact: media@paramogaleria.com / +52 33 3825 0921.
Press enquiries: media@paramogaleria.com / +52 33 3825 0921.
Special thanks to the Government of Zapopan for its co-production.
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