The Mexican artist Jose Dávila, born in 1974, initially trained as an architect. When he became disillusioned with the field’s modernist principles, he switched over to fine art and began to create sculptural assemblages, paintings, and ensembles—works that reflect on space and mass, volume and transparency. At Museum Haus Konstruktiv, on the first floor, Dávila’s The Act of Being Together combines large-scale industrial steel girders and heavy boulders sourced from the region. It suggests a city skyline, the tense convergence of nature and the manmade. Abstract paintings and other evocative installations fill the second floor. —Elena Clavarino
The Arts Intel Report
Jose Dávila: Memory of a Telluric Movement
Jose Dávila, The Act of Being Together, 2022.
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June 2 – Sept 11, 2022
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Photo: Stefan Altenburger