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).
Art Fair
ARCO Madrid
Stand 7D05
26 February – 1 March 2020
IFEMA – Feria de Madrid
Av. del Partenón, Nº5,
28042 Madrid
Spain.
Art Fair
ARCO Madrid
Stand 7G06
26 February – 1 March 2020
For the 2020 edition of ARCO Madrid, Timothy Taylor is pleased to announce a group presentation of works by Miquel Barceló, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Jean Dubuffet, Jorge Eielson, Alex Katz, Guillermo Kuitca, Jonathan Lasker, Eddie Martinez, Gabriel de la Mora, Annie Morris, Kiki Smith, Jesus Rafael Soto, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Antoni Tàpies.
IFEMA – Feria de Madrid
Av. del Partenón, Nº5,
28042 Madrid
Spain.
https://www.ifema.es/arco-madrid
Auditorio Best Maugard del Museo Nacional de Arte
16:00 to 18:00 hrs.
Enter free
Opening Conference: Originalmentefalso – 18 de febrero
Gabriel de la Mora, artista
Abraham Villavicencio, curador de la muestra
The artist will talk about his aesthetic career to reach the concepts of “original” and “fake” as a reference to his production. Based on the identification of counterfeit, intervened, transfigured and turned on “original” pieces, this dichotomy offers new meanings to the traditional valuation of art. Also, in mirror play, the curator of the exhibition will present the works that are part of the collection of the National Museum of Art within the corpus of the Originallyfake exhibition.
Gabriel de la Mora
Timothy Taylor
Art Fair EXPO Chicago
Booth 119
19-22 September 2019
Navy Pier, 600 E Grand Ave, Chicago
Gabriel de la Mora: ÉCHO
PERROTIN Paris
October 12 – December 21, 2019
After 23 years of intense work exploring painting, drawing and sculpture, I am so
glad to share that from today I am one of the represented artists by PERROTIN
Gallery.
This news make me happy and full of energy to continue my artistic proposal.
I want to thank all my collaborators on my studio in Mexico City, also
PROYECTOSMONCLOVA, Emmanuel Perrotin and his great team, because
without all of you this great step will be no possible.
Gabriel de la Mora: ECO
Conferencia abierta al publico en General
Pinacoteca Universitaria de Colima Alfonso Michel
Jueves 15 de Agosto de 2019
20:00 hrs
Vicente Guerrero 35, Centro, 28000, Colima, Colima, México.
Tel: 312 314 33 06
Para esta platica me interesa compartir las series en las que estoy trabajando actualmente y que presentaré en varias exposiciones durante 2019, tanto en México como en el extranjero, compartiré imágenes de la exposición que presente en marzo en la galería de PERROTIN de Nueva York, así como imágenes de la exposición que presentaré en la galería PERROTIN de Paris en Octubre de 2019.
Me enfocaré en mostrar como una idea a través de un proceso documentado genera una obra como parte de una serie que finaliza en la creación incluso de una nueva técnica.
https://www.perrotin.com/exhibitions/gabriel_de_la_mora_-tntr-aa/6618
https://www.perrotin.com/exhibitions/gabriel_de_la_mora_-echo/7867
Gabriel de la Mora / Art Basel 2019 @ PERROTIN Booth M25 / June 13 – 16.
Perrotin’s booth will also be dedicated to a series of solo presentations of Lee Bae, Hernan Bas, Thilo Heinzmann, Gregor Hildebrandt, JR, Bharti Kher, Jean-Michel Othoniel and Claire Tabouret.
In addition to those focus sections, the booth will feature a selection of recent works by Iván Argote, Daniel Arsham, Sophie Calle, Johan Creten, Gabriel de la Mora, Wim Delvoye, Efiaimbelo Family, Elmgreen & Dragset, Lionel Estève, Jens Fänge, Bernard Frize, John Henderson, Leslie Hewitt, Izumi Kato, Klara Kristalova, Julio Le Parc, MADSAKI, Barry McGee, Mr.,Takashi Murakami, Otani Workshop, GaHee Park, Paola Pivi, Gabriel Rico, Michael Sailstorfer, Pierre Soulages, Park Seo-Bo, Xavier Veilhan, Pieter Vermeersch, Artie Vierkant, XU ZHEN® as well as historical works of Hans Hartung, Heinz Mack, Claude Rutault, Pierre Soulages and Mel Ziegler.
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Opening hours: Thrusday – Sunday, 11 am – 7 pm.
