Bosco Sodi
Untitled, 2011, mixed media on canvas, 79″ x 110″
Pace Gallery presents ‘Bosco Sodi: Ubi sunt’ The Pace Gallery presents an exhibition of new work by Mexican-born artist Bosco Sodi, featuring twelve large-scale, monochromatic paintings created in2011 in Sodi’s studio in Brooklyn, New York.
December 9, 2011 through January 21, 2012
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Source: Pace Gallery / theartwolf.com
“When I am making a painting, I don’t stop. I don’t eat, I don’t sleep after the preparations are made and the first layer is put down. It’s a continuous action, like a performance.”
Bosco Sodi
The twelve paintings on view in the exhibition range in color and saturation from vivid pink, derived from sources in Mexico, India and Morocco, to deep blue, created with lapis lazuli or indigo from Mexico or India, to ink black, harvested from dyes or more immediate sources like carbon and sometimes even soot. The title of this exhibition, “Ubi sunt”, is a medieval Latin phrase meaning “Where are…?”, which can be understood as a meditation on mortality and life’s transience.
About the artist
Born in Mexico City in 1970, Bosco Sodi has had solo exhibitions around the world, including a recent show at the Bronx Museum of the Arts featuring Pangaea, a monumental painting measuring 13 by 40 feet. Sodi’s work can be found in numerous public and private collections, including 590 Madison, New York; the De La Cruz Collection, Puerto Rico; Jumex Collection, Mexico DF; Godia Foundation, Barcelona; and MIAAO (Museo International del Arte Aplicada Oggi, Turin, among others. Sodi maintains studios in New York, Berlin, Barcelona, and his native Mexico City, and his paintings relate site-specifically to the city in which they are created; climate change, a city’s altitude and water constituents, even the type of pigments that are readily available, create an unpredictable environment in the studio that dramatically affects the sculptural relief of his canvases.
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