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RICARDO MAZAL
NEW PAINTINGS
RICARDO MAZAL
NEW PAINTINGS
198 Davenport Rd, Toronto ON M5R 1J2 Canada I
Attraction
oil on canvas,
48 x 48 [email protected]
416.962.0438
or 800.551.2465
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THE WINE OF THE WINDS: RICARDO MAZAL
Gary Michael Dault
Out of bitterness itself the clear wine of the imagination will be pressed and the
dance prosper thereby.
William Carlos Williams
A masterful wielder of diverse media to serve
his expressive ends, Mazal has been both
inventive and fearless in his employment
of certain multidisciplinary processes that
dance attendant upon the presentation of his
final vision for a work.
does begin to paint—which he undertakes
with remarkable force and brio—he continues
to photograph the painting as it develops,
stage by stage, always circling back to
the computer with these vivid progressphotographs, where he can then produce
even more complex digital sketches—in
which the painting and the photographic
image interpenetrate and meld themselves
into the gathering rush of a surging, ongoing
idea. The process, though digitally assisted
and enriched, thus enacts and replays the
cyclical and regenerative energies of the
natural world—with its endless, relentless,
exalting (and sometimes terrifying) play of
birth-death-rebirth which all of us are heir to.
He has had frequent recourse, for example, to
photography. But Mazal’s photographs are
rarely ever positioned as ends in themselves.
Rather, he tends to further manipulate his
photos in the computer, thereby generating
suggestive digital sketches. When he finally
Mazal’s paintings often employ the grid as an
organizational armature (see, for example, his
Kora C20, Kora C21, Kora C22, Kailash G3 and
the majestic Agosto 8.13). Unlike most gridconstrued, minimal works by other artists,
however, where colour and shape are offered
“There is no such thing,” writes the great
American poet, William Carlos Williams,
in his Kora in Hell, “that with a twist of the
imagination, cannot be something else.”
Having recourse to this “twist of the
imagination” is a methodological given, a
procedural axiom, for Mexican-born painter,
Ricardo Mazal.
as chromatic and compositional ends in
themselves, Mazal’s grid-supported paintings
are somehow only initially tethered by their
underlying structure. In the end, the grid is
used as a route to further freedoms (the way
a writer can count on bedrock languagestores and certain syntactical givens beneath
what he then writes). Having erected the
grid as home-base, Mazal can then allow
his paintings to fly free—as he does with
the flapping, fluttering, strip-like, ribbonlike, banner-like, flag-like, high-wind diptych
dancework, Kailish PF7 and Kailash PF8).
These muscular, exuberantly assertive
paintings of Mazal’s are strange, compelling
admixtures of tenderness, compassion
and what the Spanish would characterize
as duende (having soul, possessing “dark
authenticity”).
The paintings with titles referencing, for
example, “Kora” and “Kailish,” are evocations
of an epic trilogy of art-enterprises which
took him on a journey to, for example, the
Tibet Himalayas in 2009, and specifically
to the mysterious Mount Kailash, sacred to
Tibetan Buddhists and Hindus.
It was in the course of this twenty-one day
sojourn at the hallowed mountain (to which
Tibetans bring their dead for a “sky burial”)
that Mazal became galvanized by the beauty
and mystery of the mountain itself—which (as
Cezanne did for Mount St. Victoire) he made
palpable in painting after painting (see, for
example, Kailash M20 and Septiembre 24.13).
the wind-whipped prayer flags, for example,
positioned across the mountain (in paintings
like Kora C21 and Kora C22, you can feel the
sanguine vitality of their saffrons and reds
and golds, juxtaposed to the eternal snowcoldness of the mountain). According to
Tibetan belief, the forbidding winds blowing
from the mountain serve to deliver the
blessings inscribed on the flags to the world
at large.
Very few painters have ever succeeded as well
as Ricardo Mazal in so memorably offering
the runaway energies of the natural world in
its most elemental, brut form and, at the same
time, ameliorating the terrible imperatives of
death and fate, regret and inevitability with
such compassionate and sweetly elaborated
ruminations about life and its meaning.
It
is
indeed
bracingly
strange—and
exhilarating—to see a painter acting in such
a profoundly painterly way —his paintings
bristle and shout with formal mastery—and
yet to find him to be, at heart, a gentle, if
intense, metaphysician.
Kora in Hell: Improvisations (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1957,
p.44).
Fascinated not only by the nobility of the
mountain’s imperturbable presence, to
which he pays homage in work after work,
using wipers and scrapers (which he wields
with virtuoso skill) to mimic the mountain’s
forbidding flanks, he became transfixed,
in equal measure, by the ritual material the
mountain engendered: by the aliveness of
Ricardo Mazal I New Paintings
1 KAILASH M20 oil on linen, 63 x 95 in. / 160 x 240 cm
2 KORA C22 oil on linen, 72 x 72 in. / 183 x 183 cm
3
AGOSTO 8.13 oil on linen, 63 x 95 in. / 160 x 240 cm
4 ABRIL 22.13 oil on linen, 40 x 42 in. / 101 x 107 cm
5 JULIO 30.13 oil on linen, 90 x 44 in. / 229 x 112 cm
7 KAILASH PF7 & KAILASH PF8 (DIPTYCH) oil on linen, 80 x 164 in. / 203 x 417 cm
8 JULIO 29.13 oil on linen, 90 x 44 in. / 229 x 112 cm
9
SEPTIEMBRE 25.11 oil on linen, 78 x 105 in. / 198 x 266 cm
10 SEPTIEMBRE 24.13 oil on linen, 60 x 60 in. / 152 x 152 cm
11
KAILASH G3 oil on linen, 66 x 78 in. / 168 x 198 cm
12 ENERO 18.12 oil on linen, 60 x 60 in. / 152 x 152 cm
RICARDO MAZAL
Ricardo Mazal, born in Mexico in 1950, currently lives and works in New York and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
In the last decade, Ricardo Mazal has had eleven solo museum exhibitions in Mexico and the United
States, including a 2006 retrospective in the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City. Mazal has exhibited
extensively in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe and Asia.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
Odon Wagner Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
Elins Eagles-Smith Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Museo Estación Indianilla, Mexico City, Mexico
Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Buschlen Mowatt Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Museo Abstracto Manuel Felguerez, Zacatecas, Mexico
Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Museum of Art, Queretaro, Queretaro, Mexico
Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington, DC, USA
Dwight Hackett Projects, Santa Fe, NM, USA
Mas Art Moderno y Contemporáneo, Barcelona, Spain
Buschlen Mowatt Gallery, Palm Desert, CA, USA
Centro de las Artes, Pinacoteca, Monterrey, Mexico
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
Buschlen, Mowatt Gallery, Palm Desert, CA, USA
Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, USA
Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, Mexico
Chiaroscuro Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM, USA
Chiaroscuro Gallery. Santa Fe, NM, USA
Mas Art Moderno y Contemporáneo, Barcelona, Spain
Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID, USA
Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, AL, USA
Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA, USA
Galería Ramis Barquet, Monterrey, Mexico
Chiaroscuro Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA
The Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM, USA
Galería Ramis Barquet, New York, NY, USA
Galerie 89, Aarwangen, Switzerland
Rule Gallery, Denver, CO, USA
Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City, Mexico
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
1994
1992
1990
1989
1988
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
Galería Ramis Barquet, Monterrey, Mexico
Rule Modern and Contemporary Gallery, Denver, CO, USA
Erickson & Elins/Fine Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
Ramis Barquet Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Galería Maeght, Barcelona, Spain
Rule Modern and Contemporary Gallery, Denver, CO, USA
Michael Dunev Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Vail-Giesler Contemporary Art, Des Moines, IA, USA
Galería Ramis Barquet, Monterrey, NL, Mexico
Scott Alan Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Galería Arte Actual Mexicano, Monterrey, Mexico
Galería Nomen, Barcelona, Spain
Galería Carl Van Der Voort, Ibiza, Spain
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Tagore Gallery, Beverley Hills, CA, USA
Museum of Art, Queretaro, Queretaro, Mexico
Scottsdale Museum of Comtemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Emma Molina, Monterrey, Mexico
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, USA
Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington, DC, USA
Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO, USA
Galería Lucía de la Puente, Lima, Peru
Chiaroscuro Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, CA, USA
Michael Martin Galleries, San Francisco, CA, USA
Galería Lucía de la Puente, Lima, Peru
Bushlen-Mowatt Gallery, Palm Desert, CA, USA
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1994
1993
1992
1991
1990
1989
1988
1987
The Mexican Cultural Institute, New York, NY, USA
Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City, Mexico
Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
4th Salon de Arte, Bancomer, Mexico City, Mexico
Limn Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Americas Society Art Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Megan Fox Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, NL, Mexico
Red, Robin Rule Gallery, Denver, CO, USA
Brewster Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mexico
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mexico
Galería Maeght, Madrid, Spain
Artel Taurino, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico, City; Mexico, Spain, and USA
The Painting Center, New York, NY, USA
Parallel Project: New Moments in Mexican Painting, New York, NY, USA
Galería Nomen, Barcelona, Spain
Galería Angel Romero, Madrid, Spain
Tom Maddock Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
AWARDS
2010
2002
1998
1991
Creador Artistico, Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte (FONCA) 2010, Mexico
Pollock Krassner Foundation, New York
COLLECTIONS
Banco de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Centro de las Artes, Monterrey, Mexico
CEMEX, Monterrey, Mexico
Cirque du Soleil, Montreal, Canada
Deutsche Bank, New York, USA and Germany
MACO-UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
Maeght Foundation, Paris, France
Museo de Arte Abstracto Manuel Felguérez, Zacatecas, Mexico
Museo del Arzobispado, Mexico City, Mexico
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey (MARCO), Monterrey, Mexico
Museo de Arte Moderno (MAM), Mexico City, Mexico
Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York, USA
Private Collections in the USA, Mexico, Germany, France, Switzerland, Spain, Japan and Korea
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, USA
Front & Back Cover: AGOSTO 8.13 (detail)
Inside Front Cover: ENERO 18.12 (detail)
Inside Back Cover: ABRIL 22.13 (detail)
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CREDITS
CURATORIAL
LAYOUT DESIGN PRINTING
Odon Wagner, Rafael Wagner and Caitlin McCullough
Caitlin McCullough
Angela Wagner
Solisco Québec
198 Davenport Road, Toronto, Ontario M5R 1J2 Canada
416-962-0438 or 800-551-2465
[email protected] odonwagnergallery.com
ISBN: 978-1-927447-09-3 National Library of Canada
“Ricardo Mazal: New Paintings”
Copyright: Odon Wagner Gallery, 2013

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