Feria de Madrid
Booth 7SP03
February 19 – 23, 2014
Wednesday
Preview 12 – 9
Thursday
Preview 12 – 8
Friday – Sunday
12 – 8
Steve Turner Contemporary is pleased to announce its participation in ARCO Madrid where we will present works by Mexico City-based artist Pablo Rasgado in the Solo Projects Focus Latin America section.
Rasgado will present four corner works that each consist of a broken pane of glass that has been repaired with both photographic filters and adhesive tape together with a mirror and a fluorescent light. When presented in the darkness of the booth at ARCO, the filters and tape produce prismatic light effects. Rasgado is interested in the way in which objects and buildings fall into ruin–and how ruin is often staved off in Latin America by creative and often impractical repair-work. By highlighting the missing elements of the broken objects, Rasgado continues his practice of casting light on neglected aspects of urban daily life while distilling the passage of time.
In his multi-faceted practice, Rasgado creates works that relate to urbanism and abstraction. Like an archaeologist, he mines micro-histories to illuminate contemporary life. In some past works, he has used the technique of strappo to extract painted passages from public walls to create abstract paintings that possess social, political and aesthetic content. In others, he has used drywall from temporary museum exhibitions to create abstractions that transformed what had been background material into something noticeable. In both cases, Rasgado creates new images from discarded or overlooked material that distill a concept that is elusive and abstract—he depicts the passage of time.
Pablo Rasgado (born Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico, 1984) has had solo exhibitions at Steve Turner Contemporary (2011, 2012 & 2013); Arratia Beer, Berlin (2012); and Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City (curated by Tobias Ostrander, 2011). His work has also been featured in solo exhibitions at Zona Maco, Mexico City (Steve Turner Contemporary, 2012); Art Basel Miami Beach (Arratia Beer, 2012) and artBO, Bogotá (Steve Turner Contemporary, 2013). Rasgado’s work has also been featured in important museum group exhibitions including Other People’s Problems: Conflicts and Paradoxes, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (2013); Noise, Ex Magazzini di San Cassian, Venice (2013); When Attitudes Become Form Becomes Attitudes, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (curated by Jens Hoffman, 2012); Los Irrespetuosos, Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (curated by Carlos Palacios, 2012); and Lost Line: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2012). He is currently a recipient of the Bancomer MACG Fellowship.
