Gabriel de la Mora: Drive and Method (Arte y Fotografía) - Hardcover

Willy Kautz; Miguel González Virgen; Gilbert Vicario; Robert C. Morgan; Contributions By Pamela Echeverria

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8475069657 ISBN 13: 9788475069654

Publisher: Turner, 2015

Synopsis

• In Gabriel de la Mora's work, accuracy and execution appear to be conceptual as well as formal manoeuvres
• His work is related with the dark side of the psyche, its internal side, away from the cynical and ironic proposals that are so common in contemporary art

In Gabriel de la Mora's work, accuracy and execution appear to be conceptual as well as formal manoeuvres. If everything appears to be in its place, what is so disquieting and marvellous about his work? What leads us to experience something sinister? His work is related with the dark side of the psyche, its internal side, away from the cynical and ironic proposals that are so common in contemporary art.

Gabriel de la Mora's works explore personal identity through different lines of research that trace the thread of his work: originality, the paranormal, identity, memory, portrait and body are part of set of dichotomies represented in his work, where the line and point become elements which generate dialogue between drawing and sculpture, between two dimensional and three dimensional.

About this title

Product Description

Steeped in obsessions with mortality and identity, the work of Mexican artist Gabriel de la Mora (born 1968) ranges from sculptures of himself that he then performs by demolishing, to drawings of skulls and experiments with human and non-human hair. This volume surveys de la Mora's investigations in abjection.

Edition details

• Publisher: Turner
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8475069657
• ISBN 13: 9788475069654
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 244