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).
Curated by Raúl Zamudio
Blanka Amezkua, Claudia Baez, Tania Candiani, Mauricio Cortes,Gabriel de La Mora, Adolfo Doring, ERRE, Erika Harrsch ,Humana & Generosa, Alva Mooses,Damian Ontiveros,Miguel Rodriguez Sepulveda ,Joaquin Segura Teresa Serrano,Vargas Suarez-Universal.
May 5, 2020 – June 12, 2020
WHITEBOX HARLEM
213 East 121st Street, New York, NY 10035
Yo era bueno tirando piedras / I was very good at tossing stones
Curaduría: Willy Kautz
David Alfaro Siqueiros, Ana Bidart & Primal, Antonio Bravo, Rocío Cerón, Itziar Giner, Cynthia Gutiérrez, Isauro Huizar, Cirse Irasema, Berta Kolteniuk, Daniel Lara Ballesteros, Gabriel de la Mora, Diego Pérez, Jorge Satorre.
21 de Marzo, 2020 – 04 de Octubre, 2020 / March 21, 2020 – October 04, 2020.
La Tallera, Sala Principal, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México.
http://saps-latallera.org/tallera/exposiciones/yo-era-muy-bueno-tirando-piedras?lang=en
PERROTIN New York is pleased to participate in Dallas Art Fair Online, accessible via the fair’s digital portal between April 14–23, 2020.
Our presentation brings together new and recent contemporary works by artists Lee Bae, Gabriel Rico, Bernard Frize, Josh Sperling, GaHee Park, Daniel Arsham, Gabriel de la Mora, Thilo Heinzmann, Zach Harris, Claire Tabouret, Elmgreen & Dragset, Bharti Kher, Paola Pivi, John Henderson, Park Seo-bo, Erró.
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
