Arredondo \ Arozarena is pleased to announce the solo show of mexican artist Gustavo Abascal.
Cría Cuervos (Raise Crows) combines Abascal´s latest work in different techniques and media. Each piece marks an end: the end in the creative process, artistic creation, the end of the production process or simply depicts objects associated with passing.
Five oil paintings on canvas exhibited show origami animals with skulls. On the one hand, the presence of the skulls indicates the end of a life, while on the other hand, the origami bodies show the end of a production process: the origami is finished when the last fold is done. The same happens to the painting: when the last brush stroke is put on the canvas, the work arrives to its end, only to transform it into an object of contemplation.

Other than these canvases, the artist will exhibit a series of porcelain plates with a production process completely different from that of the canvases: every single layer of paint has to be fired. The time that this process takes makes the piece susceptible to change. Exactly the same way as in case of the origamis, the outcome of this process questions the purpose of the base: it changes the concept of the plate as a functional object and recreates it as a plain white base that is malleable and can easily be transformed through the use of drawing.
Last but not least a piece divided into nine panels depicting the falling buildings of a bombarded city. It is dedicated to the idea of space and of the durability of things: their lives and their ends. Space plays a very important role here: as it gives form and function to the emptiness of a plane piece of paper.