September 28 - December 7, 2024
From Sicardi Ayers Bacino:
“Please join us on Saturday, September 28th at 5 pm, prior to the opening of the exhibit Gustavo Diaz: Wild Winds, Subtle Breeze, for a conversation between curator Rachel Federman and the artist Gustavo Díaz.
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Please save the date for the opening reception of Wild Wind, Subtle Breeze, our fourth solo exhibition featuring the work of contemporary artist Gustavo Díaz [b. 1969, Argentina], in our main gallery. A text by art historian, curator, and writer Rachel Federman accompanies the exhibition.
Wild Wind, Subtle Breeze features a selection of Díaz’s new drawings that showcase the artist’s return to the use of his laser machines after a three-year hiatus during which he rigorously developed and expanded his mark-making vocabulary through exclusively creating graphite drawings on paper, exploring the relationship with between the pencil and paper and the mechanics of drawing by hand. As Federman notes, Díaz “has returned to his machines, but he brings the discoveries of his tireless draftsmanship with him. In a series inspired by ornithological flight patterns, he incorporates the tempo and dynamism of hand drawing into the maddeningly meticulous technical work the cut paper pieces demand. The paper is cut by extreme heat, which sometimes singes its edges, leaving them black. There is a poetic tension between fire, which we tend to think of as chaotic, and the otherworldly precision of Díaz’s work. After the paper is cut, he returns with pencils, drawing on the cut paper to create zones of seeming transparency—further complexities. Díaz describes this approach as ‘a cycle of drawing from the mind (the concept), the hand, then the computer, the machine, the hand again.'”
Reception: September 28, 2024 | 6–8 pm
1506 West Alabama
Houston, 77098 TX
(713) 529-1313
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