Until April 30, TRAVESIA CUATRO will present a new project coinciding with the work carried out by Jose Dávila’s in the gallery for 10 years.
The exhibition is related to a series of sculptures showing the eternal human struggle against gravity. Based on his attraction to architecture, minimalism and the history of art, the sculptures show a moment of suspension that makes it possible to appreciate the balance. From an interest in the physical phenomenon visibly implied, Davila maintains tension in these compositions conveying a disturbing tranquility. The apparent calm of the sculptures is the result of a forces balance, the support and natural tendency to rush onto the floor.
Points, lines and planes as basic elements of architecture of the composition and construction are used in the pieces. The result is static, spatial, and abstract forms, and a mixing of constructive experiment, sculpture and drawing at the same time
In addition to the individual exhibition at the Gallery, TRAVESIA CUATRO will be exhibiting at ARCOmadrid 2015 (9B08) stand three great dimensions moving sculptures by the artist, titled Homenaje al cuadrado.
Jose Dávila (Mexico, 1974) lives and works in Guadalajara, Mexico. Throughout his career he has worked on the relationship between place and fiction, space and time, and used architecture and geometry as main themes. For this purpose, he has used a wide range of supports and techniques including sculpture, installation, photography and drawing. Alongside his artistic work, he was co-director and co-founder of the Art Projects Office (OPA) in Guadalajara, Jalisco.
He was recognized with the national scholarship for young artists of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) of Mexico 2000-2001, and the State Fund for Culture and the Arts (FECA) in 2004-2005.The artist made an annual residency in Berlin by an invitation of the Kunstwerke and, with the support of the Andy Warhol Foundation, he made a residence at Camden Arts Centre, in London. He was recently recognized by ArtNexus as best Latin American artist of 2014 and The Getty Foundation granted Los Angeles Nomadic Division a scholarship to develop a research on the Davila’s work at the midpoint of his career.
His work has been exhibited in individual and collective exhibitions, galleries, art centers around the world, and his work is also represented in Spanish museums such as Artium of Vitoria, the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia National Museum, Marco of Vigo, the collection of the La Caixa Foundation and the ARCO Foundation collection and the Center art Dos de Mayo (CA2M) as well as in institutions of international relevance such as the University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC), Mexico D.F (Mexico); the Inhotim collection, in Brumadinho (Brazil); Albright-Knox Museum in Buffalo, New York (USA); the Zabludowicz Collection, in London (United Kingdom); the Museum of Modern Art (MUDAM), in Luxembourg; the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) in Boston (USA) and the National Centre of Art and culture Georges Pompidou, Paris (France). In addition, his works are part of private collections like Coppel, Jumex, DKV and the collection of Patricia Phelps Cisneros.
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