Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino is pleased to present a group exhibition featuring artists Gabriel de la Mora, León Ferrari, Cildo Meireles, Oscar Muñoz, Marie Orensanz, Miguel Angel Ríos, Miguel Ángel Rojas, John Sparagana, and Ana Maria Tavares, and we are excited to kick off our summer programming with a return to in-person opening receptions. An essay written by Independent Curator Ximena Gama accompanies the exhibition.
As Ximena Gama explains, "The question that inspired this exhibition is how to investigate the relationship that exists between the image and the word, between the work of a visual artist and that of a writer. These two mediums have always been considered opposite disciplines, and tradition has reduced both to their use value. Words are merely an explanation or translation of art, and the image’s sole objective is to illustrate discourse. To accept their incompatibility, however, ignores their poetic power and their capacity, when...they dialogue with each other, to inspire imagination and to create a new reality. This is precisely the idea behind Subtext, an exhibition that brings together a series of contemporary artists from Argentina to Mexico who have straddled this border in order to go beyond it. It was on this border between words and images that these artists found a way to approach and understand the tumultuous social reality of Latin America. In their work, word and text combine to become a vehicle that contaminates the formal purity of conceptual art and thus adds a gesture of political criticism to their work."
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