Recent off his sold-out run at Zona Maco final February, Mexico Metropolis-based artist Rodrigo Ramírez is heading to New York to make his U.S. solo debut at Swivel Gallery. Titled Whereas Being Plastic Membranes, the exhibition explores the visceral rigidity between physique and psyche, pushing the boundaries of embodiment by way of a collection of dreamlike work and sculptures.
Taking cues from Baroque non secular iconography, “The Backyard of Earthly Delights” by Hieronymus Bosch and Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropófago, Ramírez delves into the thought of “cultural cannibalism” with play and depth in hand. Simply as societies soak up and reconfigure subcultures, his figures devour and mutate, present in a liminal state of perpetual flux.
A knack for the unsettling sings by way of Ramírez’s flesh-colored varieties, as they twist, contort and bleed into each other, caught in countless evolution. His canvases, cerebral and cinematic, create a way of vertigo by way of gentle and shadow, as sculptures additional prolong this act of changing into right into a three-dimensional actuality. Distilling anatomical landscapes, anxieties of getting old and concepts of self-perception, these works embrace the interaction of ache and pleasure as a result of, because the gallery notes, “we type of don’t have any selection however to take action.”
Whereas Being Plastic will likely be on view in New York from March 29 by way of April 26.
Swivel Gallery
555 Greenwich Avenue,
New York, NY 10014
