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Lucía Vidales | Jerónimo Rüedi

Lucía Vidales | Jerónimo Rüedi

Exhibition

-> Sep 7 2021 – Oct 23 2021

Galería Karen Huber

today open 12:00PM 7:00PM

For the past seven years Galería Karen Huber has focused on reclaiming the role of contemporary painting in Mexico. Therefore, the gallery is proud to present the work of two painters, essential to the country’s scene. Throughout the years Lucía Vidales and Jerónimo Rüedi have explored different pictorial languages until finding their own. Their shows are proof of their commitment to the practice and the maturity in their work. Both exhibitions will take place during GAMA Week, from September 7 to the 11.

Un lugar para sí misma by Lucía Vidales will be shown in the Main Room. Through her work, Vidales shares a personal interest for the body–alone or in relation to others, moving or reclining. Anxious, broken, fragmented or twisted bodies seem to leave, or fall into, deep and ambiguous spaces. Lucia describes her sense of color as liminal and versatile. The fluid trait of her pieces emphasizes her unique visual imaginary. At first sight it appears to be a dream world, yet it also mirrors the tragic aftermath of the historical imaginaries, in particular colonial, that stalk the female body up to this day and create paradoxical narratives. This particular body of work takes the Malinche as its starting point: A woman with a unique role in history–perhaps also liminal, as the works in question, a woman that didn’t conform to the standards of pre-Columbian societies, nor to colonial standards, creating a new place for herself. Her figure, a halfway house between myth and reality, is always surrounded by misunderstandings and problems. This paradoxical being interacts with some of the figures from the paintings, figures that tend towards the animal, bodies that flow, that choose not to be from here or from there. In the the Project Room present Drawing the Boundaries of a Fire by Jerónimo Rüedi. In this new series of paintings and drawings the artist delves into his line of research on semiotics in painting. When does a gesture become a sign? When does meaning emerge? These are some of the questions guiding his artistic practice. This constant play between image and language opens a space for experimentation, formally projected onto his work. His hunt for different surfaces and textures creates atmospheres with enigmatic depth. The artist seeks to reduce the painting to its most essential form, achieving an extremely personal imaginary of gestures that inhabit an ambiguous landscape, in which the act of representation attempts to ‘try to say’ rather than ‘to state’. In this sense, Rüedi articulates a series of hallmarks that produce non-lineal connections in the beholder’s mind. In accordance with Deleuze’s lyrical thinking, these sign constellations do not operate from a textual stance, but they are based on rhythms, tensions, and distributions. They do not produce logical ideas or laws, but convey emotions, perceptions, and connections, opening the door to new ways of creating knowledge.

— Galería Karen Huber