2020 — Exhibition

All of a Sudden

William Anastasi, Dike Blair, Daniel Boccato, Dove Bradshaw, André Butzer, Talia Chetrit, Jake Clark, Le Corbusier, Lucy Dodd, Hadi Fallahpisheh, Marie Hazard, Evan Holloway, Brook Hsu, Pierre Jeanneret, Wyatt Kahn, Kazuo Kadonaga, Kiyoshi Kaneshiro, Dan McCarthy, Adam McGowan, Mohamed Namou, Ben Noam, Mai-Thu Perret, Charlotte Perriand, Jean Prouvé, Jennifer Rochlin, Michael Ross, Jean Royère, SANGREE, Alessandro Teoldi, Blair Thurman

01/11/2020 - 16/12/2020631 E Durant Ave (Aspen)Off-site

Galería Mascota is proud to present All of a Sudden, a group exhibition showcasing a selection of works by 21 interdisciplinary artists in an effort to contemplate material as a matrix for creation. Through a lens that understands making and generating as an important beginning of thought and life, this group show attempts to focus on the material aspect of the work as an encouraging and nurturing vessel that facilitates a connection with what was and what will be. Within the wide range of materials selected by the artists forming part of this exhibition, the works seem to whisper to each other, engaging in a conversation about creation. An old school canon of Art History is that the material of choice must be manipulated by the artist to become as close to reality as possible, any evidence of the process must almost be erased from the final product, allowing for a certain myth of creation. However, when the barrier of this myth is broken and the apparatus of making is unveiled to the viewer, then material can be understood not only as a tool to create visual compositions but also as a map to the entire cosmology of the artist and their work. Material can be folklore, sound, writing, coding, observing, interviewing, archiving, but the deep personal knowledge that comes from the true exploration of a medium is what leads to the creation of different universes. Going beyond the expression of a line or the imprint of a movement on a canvas, there is something that lies beyond the evidence of the artistic act. There is a silent knowing in the turning of useful materials into something different, something further away. There is a knowing that goes beyond material, which is the drive of creation. In a time of online reproduction, the physical presence of material has become crucial. There is a divide between materiality and immateriality, the material force of a work of art evokes a knowing in the viewer that allows interpretation and the projection of their own identity. But the immaterial aspect is what resonates with something outside our senses. This side of immateriality is where we can find the unseen parts of ourselves. A resonance with immateriality that might be all that is left after art.