Unfolded is perhaps the last work in which Gonzalo Lebrija uses the airplane as a theme. The exhibition Unfolded consistis of six unfolded paper airplanes, each one attached to a square, large-format maple support and coated in a layer of gold leaf.
There are nods in the direction of artists such as Mark Rothko, in particular the Rothko Chapel. The gold monochrome of Unfolded also alludes to works such as Yves Klein's Saut dans le vide (1960) and specifically to the Mensajes of Mathias Goeritz, which the artist himself referred to as "visual prayers", seeing in gold a spiritual material. Additionally the gilded works reverberate in space and recall the formal interplay of light and shadow in the work of Luis Barragán.
In Unfolded, Gonzalo Lebrija has combined two of humankind's most ancient yearnings: flight and gold. Gold is even older than the sun: it is the result of tiny fragments of...neutron stars that fused in our galaxy long before the existence of the sun. This gold from space contributed to forming the earth and the rest of the solar system. The luminous folds proposed by the artist function as religious and poetical symbols.
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