Anatomy of a myth

Exposición / 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel / 532 West 25th Street / Nueva York, New York, Estados Unidos
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Cuándo:
15 sep de 2016 - 15 oct de 2016

Inauguración:
15 sep de 2016 / 18:00

Organizada por:
532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel

Artistas participantes:
Susana Guerrero

       

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Descripción de la Exposición

32 Gallery is pleased to present Susana Guerrero’s first solo exhibition in the United States. Through her inventions, Susana Guerrero is set upon taking up themes of mythology and utopia (“mythopia”), "bringing together a genealogy of the materials, an anthropology of human experience, guided by the murmur of a dream". She allows a perceptual interpretation of a different kind. Many of Guerrero’s artwork evokes a contemporary mythology that puts on the same plane the visible physical reality, the material of dreams and the subconscious, the hidden reality. There’s a kind of reformulation of ancient mythologies, constituting personal thoughts of the sacred through mythical stories, traditions and legends, superstitions and intuitive revelations. In the process of making the artwork, Guerrero reveals a binding ritual. The choice of every material, the configuration of every shape, of every element, brings a poetic meaning and symbolism to her artwork. Indications of imaginary blood and path through veins and arteries, active heart, organs out of place yet connected to a pumping system. Guerrero may posit a relatively fractured or whole woman, or a person in different bodily states. As she makes the crisply graphic work, more figurative forms are mixed with unspecifiable shapes or abstracted forms in parts of her composition. Her most vivid construction appears to be derived from a varying “mythopia”. The result is formed with features that may be confrontational or bacchanal. Parts of it may be supposed to urge identification or resist it. In this case, the filling of the space often places a situation akin to a breaking out, a way of purifying the spirit and getting to new ideas.

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