Following meticulous and self-created methodologies, Gabriel de la Mora researches, collects, classifies, catalogs, and manipulates remarkably diverse materials. These materials are familiar, sourced from quotidian objects—his ongoing series The weight of thought, for example, repurposes leather and rubber shoe soles. de la Mora’s materials of choice are those often considered waste or residue: collected artifacts and antiques, obsolete mechanical and utilitarian objects, parts, corporeal matter, architectural scrap. Through these, the artist explores finitude and permanence, the passing of time, it’s bracketing, and the transformation of matter and energy alike. The formal outcome of these processes plays with pre-established notions of drawing, painting, and sculpture. Characterized by their visual potency, the resulting bodies of work complicate theoretical and historical art terms (the ready-made, the objet-trouvé, the monochrome, the peinture en plein air, among others). As such, they establish an ironic spin on the abstract and minimalist aesthetics and inquire about the ever-changing notion of painting as a phenomenon. Can painting originate itself with the passing of time and without any intervention from the artist’s hand? This apparent negation of painting and other ontological musings formulated by de la Mora’s oeuvre is extended to artistic practice at large: When is an artwork born and when does it reach its conclusion? What is the role of the artist within the creative act? Coupled with equally methodical and strict processes, Gabriel de la Mora has constituted a practice in which the role of the artist is not to create nor to destroy, but to transform.
Gabriel de la Mora was born on September 23, 1968 in Mexico City, where he lives and works. He earned an MFA in Painting (2001-03) from Pratt Institute, NY and a BFA in Architecture (1987-91) from Universidad Anáhuac del Norte, Mexico City. He has been a Fulbright García-Robles grant recipient, a grantee from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, and a member of the National System of Creators-FONCA (2013-15), Mexico.
His work is part of public and private collections in Mexico and abroad, among them: Fundación/Colección JUMEX, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Internacional Rufino Tamayo, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo-MUAC, and Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City; Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico; Museum of Contemporary Art-MOCA, Los Angeles, CA; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; El Museo del Barrio, NYC, NY; Albright-Knox, Buffalo, NY; Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela; Colección Banco de la República and Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Bogotá; Museo de Arte Latinoamericano-MALBA, Buenos Aires.
He is represented by PROYECTOS MONCLOVA (Mexico City),PERROTIN (Paris, New York, Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, and Hong Kong), Timothy Taylor (London), Sicardi Ayers Bacino (Houston) and Simões de Assis (Curitiba, Brazil)
PERROTIN MATIGNON
BERNARD FRIZE, LAURENT GRASSO, HANS HARTUNG, THILO HEINZMANN, ALAIN JACQUET, KLARA KRISTALOVA, GABRIEL DE LA MORA, JESÚS RAFAEL SOTO
Guo Pei (b. 1967), China’s first couture artist, combines Chinese cultural heritage with international elements and artistic expression. Guo’s astonishing runway collections have impressed fashion and art audiences alike for almost 30 years. Presenting the first major exhibition of Guo’s work produced in China, M+ will showcase Guo’s key collections and early designs, highlighting her unique career connecting China and the rest of the world and the cultural symbols created through her sophisticated and visually dazzling practice. Working with the couturier and her studio, the exhibition presents a selection of garments shown to audiences in the region for the first time, creating a layered dialogue with the M+ Collections around visual imagination and workmanship. The exhibition foregrounds Guo Pei’s unique artistic style that resonates with imperial Chinese dress etiquette, European royal fashion, architecture, and the botanical world.
Helen Escobedo, Ángela Gurría, Aydeé Rodríguez López, Noé Martínez, Gabriel de la Mora, Hilda Palafox, María Sosa, Eduardo Terrazas, Germán Venegas.
La Maison de l’Amerique Latine
217 BD Saint-Germain, 75007 Paris, Francia
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At their core, creating and looking at works of art are acts of care, from the artist’s labor to the viewer’s contemplation and appreciation. Storage, conservation, and display are also ways of tending to art. This exhibition invites visitors to explore how contemporary artists trace and address concepts of care through their materials, subjects, ideas, and processes.
More than 100 works from the MFA’s collection—including recent acquisitions and objects that have never been on view before—define, depict, and demonstrate many forms of care through five thematic groupings: threads, thresholds, rest, vibrant matter, and adoration. Gisela Charfauros McDaniel’s portrait of her mother, Tiningo’ si Sirena (2021), moves between intimacy and an attentiveness to larger concepts that are meaningful to the artist, like cultural inheritances and ecological interconnectivity. For his Sound Suit (2008), Nick Cave extended the lifespan of discarded objects by transforming them into a surreal, otherworldly costume that asserts the value of Black life. The intensive time and labor that goes into creating textiles and fiber art is evident in examples by Sheila Hicks, Howardena Pindell, and Jane Sauer. Through these works and many others visitors can consider how different forms of care may inspire new models for living and feeling—now and in the future.
https://www.mfa.org/exhibition/tender-loving-care
Gabriel de la Mora, Eduardo Terrazas, Germán Venegas, James Benjamin Franklin, Georgina Gratrix, Josué Mejía, Tercerunquinto
BOOTH 318
05.09.2024 – 08.09.2024
Javits Convention Center
429 11th Ave, Nueva York, NY 10001, US
FRIEZE SEOUL 2024 Gabriel de la Mora, Eduardo Terrazas, Yoshua Okón, Hilda Palafox, Alejandra Venegas, Edgar Orlaineta BOOTH C03 04.09.2024 – 07.09.2024
COEX Center 513 Yeongdong-daero, Gangnam-gu, 06164, Seoul
The Aspen Art Fair at the Hotel Jerome and 74tharts are thrilled to present A Place for Us, an expansive group preview exhibition curated by Laura Smith Sweeney of LSS Art Advisory. Opening on June 25th, the show features artworks by 12 artists working in a variety of media, from pulped law textbooks to blown glass. The artists, represented by Southern Guild, Patron, Praise Shadows and Perrotin, which will participate in the Aspen Art Fair, include Iván Argote, Jamal Cyrus, Gabriel de la Mora, Leslie Hewitt, Samuel Levi Jones, Caroline Kent, Zanele Muholi, Jean Shin, Yuri Shimojo, Stanislaw Trzebinski, Liat Yossifor, and Luyanda Zindela.
Gabriel de la Mora @ Art Monte Carlo Booth D4 / PERROTIN
July 6 – 7, 2024
Perrotin is pleased to return to artmonte-carlo with a selection of works by artists from the gallery’s roster including Daniel Arsham, Jean-Marie Appriou, Julian Charrière, Johan Creten, Gabriel de la Mora, Mathilde Denize, Jens Fänge, Laurent Grasso, Gregor Hildebrandt, JR, Gérard Schneider, Shim Moon-Seup, AYA TAKANO and Xavier Veilhan.
