Following a meticulous process, Gabriel de la Mora researches, collects, classifies, catalogues, and manipulates remarkably diverse materials. These materials are familiar, taken from quotidien 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, De la Mora explores finitude and permanence, the passing of time, its bracketing, and the transformation of matter and energy alike.
The formal outcome of this process plays with pre-established notions of drawing, painting, and sculpture. Characterized by their visual potency, the works complicate theoretical and historical art terms (the ready-made, the objet-trouvé, the monochrome, the peinture en plein air). They tackle ironically the abstract and minimalist aesthetic, and inquire on 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 body of work are 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 in Mexico City in 1968, where he still lives and works. He earned an MFA from Pratt Institute, NY and a BFA in Architecture from Universidad Anáhuac del Norte, Mexico City. His work has been exhibited at solo and group shows in museums and galleries in Mexico, the United States, Canada, Colombia, Brazil, Spain, and the United Kingdom, amongst others. He is represented by Timothy Taylor (London), Sicardi Gallery (Houston), and Proyectos Monclova (Mexico City).
Gabriel de la Mora @ Perrotin / The Bridge 2018 / September 14 – 16, 2018 / Bridgehampton, New York.
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-22-artists-materials-inspire-drive-work
In his sculptural works and installations, Gabriel de la Mora often incorporates discarded objects that have outlived their original purposes, from eggshells to microscope slides. “The end of something is, to me, the starting point for something else,” he explained. In 2013, he began using old shoe soles for a series of sculptures and assemblages entitled “The Weight of Thought.”
For years, de la Mora has had an assistant collect rubber and leather shoe soles from downtown Mexico City (some are found, some are bought). Once they arrive at his studio, the soles are classified and organized into pairs, based on the holes they have and which foot they belong to. The artist mines the objects for their universality and the personal hints they retain from their former owners. Ultimately, he cuts them down and combines them to create conceptual sculptures and assemblages.
A New Way of Walking, 7 June – 28 July 2018, London
For the summer season, Timothy Taylor is pleased to announce the group exhibition A New Way of Walking, which brings together an eclectic mix of artists and works all united by an interest in the impact of the surrounding environment on the individual. In the 1950’s, the theorist Guy Debord defined the term psychogeography to represent enquiries into the impact of geographical location upon the emotions and behaviour of conscious beings.
There is an element of chance, discovery and adventure involved in Debord’s structure for psychogeography – the notion that even the most familiar of places still withhold surprises, the uncovering of which offers a greater understanding of personal ontologies.
Exhibited artists include:
Vija Celmins, George Condo, Jean Dubuffet, Philip Guston, Gabriel de la Mora, Volker Huller, Eddie Martinez, Kazuo Shiraga.
SIMPOSIO MÉXICO: PINTURA REACTIVA
14 jun, 19 jul, 16 ago y 6 sep
El simposio México: Pintura reactiva busca abordar la relación entre la pintura contemporánea y el arte postconceptual para replantear la idea de la pintura y de lo pictórico. El programa está estructurado en cuatro sesiones direccionadas en temas específicos que propiciarán el diálogo y la reflexión sobre las prácticas de la pintura contemporánea.
PROGRAMA Sesión 1 Fracturas de la identidad
Diálogo sobre las temáticas nacionalistas abordadas por la generación de los años ochenta y criticadas durante los años noventa. Crítica que promovió y abrió camino a una escena artística internacional.
Invitados: Gabriel de la Mora, Marco Arce, Omar Rodríguez-Graham y Rafael UriegasModera: Josefa Ortega
Sede: Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado ¨La Esmeralda¨Jueves 14 de junio, 11 hrs.
Sesión 2 Nuevas representaciones
Reflexión acerca de las nuevas representaciones pictóricas y el uso de un lenguaje más cercano a procesos postconceptuales e iconografías críticas.
Invitados: Berta Kolteniuk, Elsa-Louise Manceaux, Alexis Mata ¨Ciler¨ y Luis HampshireModera: Erik del Castillo
Sede: Galería Metropolitana (UAM) (Por Confirmar)Jueves 19 de julio, 11 hrs.
Sesión 3 Pintura y política
Charla que se centrará en repensar la pintura señalando los contrapuntos entre las temáticas representadas y el medio ligado a los contextos históricos, políticos y sociales.
Invitados: Álvaro Verduzco, Néstor Jiménez y Chelsea CulpritModera: Octavio Avendaño
Sede: Facultad de Artes y Diseño UNAMJueves 16 de agosto, 11 hrs.
Sesión 4Pintura reactiva
Discusión que busca profundizar en la escena actual de la pintura contemporánea y su proyección en un mercado latinoamericano e internacional.
Invitados: Karen Huber, Polina Stroganova y Gustavo ArronizModera: Carlos Palacios
Sede: Museo de Arte Carrillo GilJueves 6 de septiembre, 11 hrs
http://www.museodeartecarrillogil.com/educacion/programa-educativo/simposio-mexico-pintura-reactiva
El cuarto de los ojos sucios / Gabriel de la Mora & Ana Bidart @ El cordón umbilical retiniano / Cur. Willy Kautz @ Espacio de Arte Contemporaneo – ESPAC / 14.06.2018
Reunámonos alrededor de una pintura como alrededor del fuego. Un cuarto, una pieza, un autor ¿Qué evoca el calor de su existencia en la imaginación? Hablemos de eso, de lo que existe y de lo que funda: la idea detrás de la idea es la materia, la materia detrás de la materia es la idea. Hablemos del pensamiento habitando la obra habitando el mundo.
¿Qué sucede cuando prácticas artísticas heterogéneas se hospedan en una exposición entramada en una reflexión sobre pintura? ¿Cómo entablar conversaciones entre obras que a la vez que exceden el medio, fincan sus parecidos de familia en la gramática de su historia?
Proponemos conversar sobre la pintura contemporánea como un sistema metaestable, es decir, injerto de sistemas que a la vez que lo reavivan, lo impurifican. Estemos ahí.
El medio crepita, la pintura permanece.
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El cuarto de los ojos sucios es una actividad organizada por Sandra Sánchez y Eric Valencia.
ESPAC
Goethe 130, Anzures, 11590 Ciudad de México
http://www.espac.org.mx/es/exposiciones.php
http://gabrieldelamora.com/
LISTE – Basilea / Basel – Booth 0/10/7/ – Gabriel de la Mora & Ištvan Išt Huzjan – 11.06.2018 – 17.06.2018
Sicardi Ayers Bacino at the Dallas Art Fair, Booth A3 presents a selection of work by gallery artists: Gustavo Díaz, Mariano Dal Verme, Magdalena Fernández, Thomas Glassford, Gabriel de la Mora, Liliana Porter, Melanie Smith, and John Sparagana.
DALLAS ART FAIR | BOOTH A3
FASHION INDUSTRY GALLERY | 1807 ROSS AVENUE | DALLAS, TX
FRIDAY, APRIL 13 – SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 2018
ZONA MACO. Main section. / Mexico City / Mexico
07.02.2018-11.02.2018
Booth D209
Gabriel de la Mora, Helen Escobedo, Julius Heinemann, Josephine Meckseper, Adrien Missika, Robert C. Morgan, Edgar Orlaineta, Chantal Peñalosa, Michael Sailstorfer, Tercerunquinto, Eduardo Terrazas, Anna Virnich
Gabriel de la Mora: Técnicas y Contextos
Pinacoteca de la Universidad de Colima
Vicente Guerrero 35, Centro 28000, Colima, México.
14 de septiembre al 14 de noviembre de 2018.
Gabriel de la Mora: Crystals of Inevidence / Cristales de Inevidencia
September 7 – October 19, 2017
Sicardi Gallery
