‘The stone is a direct link to the heart of the matter, a molecular link. When I hit it, I get the echo of what we are, at the solar plexus, matter’s center of gravity. Then, the whole universe has a resonance.’ -Isamu Noguchi Rooted between the limits of abstraction and figuration, the work of …
“Neither tales of progress nor of ruin tell us how to think about collaborative survival. It is time to pay attention to mushroom picking. Not that this will save us—but it might open our imaginations.” Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins Depending on …
For this edition of NADA New York 2022, Machete Galería is pleased to present for PROJECTS section, a solo show by the artist Andrea Villalón (1995, Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico). part of his new series “Problemas en el paraíso” (“Trouble in Paradise”)
This 8th Material edition is very special for everyone, going back to the fairs is one more step to recover our work and future. Our booth wants to be able to bring a selection of our program to the fair visitor. With this presentation we want to show our maturity as a gallery, how our …
With an artistic practice that moves between painting, photography and stained glass, Andrea Villalón (Uruapan, 1995) has developed a pictorial language rooted in an introspective and autobiographical exercise. A meditation on the passage of time crosses through all her work: dried flowers and burned-down candles that, like a classic memento mori, recall the fleeting nature …
“Bajo el sol de Jalisco” [Under the Jalisco sun] is a summer visit from Machete Galería to our friends from Curro in Guadalajara.The exhibition, made up of works by Artemio, Andrea Villalón, Diego Berruecos, Ernesto Solana and Paula Cortazar, gives a clipping from the Machete program and is also a nod to the summer season. …
The works of Artemio (Mexico, 1976) are characterized by reflecting–or not–through humor and irony–or not–about power structures. Currently, he finds himself reflecting on and deconstructing as he can–or not–the power structures that exist–or don’t–in the art world. The show “Decent Works” is the second part of the saga that began with “Bonfire of the Vanities” …
The imagery inscribed in the exhibition The State of Things, featuring Mexican artist Marcos Castro, is reminiscent of the work of landscape painters like Dr. Atl, who recorded the birth and activity of the Paricutín volcano. In addition to reasserting Castro’s interest in volcanology and more specifically, the historic implications resulting from the activity of …
In the first edition of the ArtHouse Project at Casa Versalles, we present a selection of the latest works by Andrea Villalón, Artemio, Marcos Castro, María Conejo, Paula Cortazar and Verónica Palmieri. Paula Cortazar will also be part of the Curator’s Salon, a curatorship by Alberto Rios de La Rosa focused on contemporary Mexican sculptors. …
“Recámaras” is Verónica Palmieri’s first exhibition in Mexico and with it, she officially joins the roster of artists represented by Machete Galería. In this exhibition she presents paintings that support a grayish palette without saturation of colors with scenes that take place mostly indoors that are torn between light and shadow, as if strong light …