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guillermo
mora
quizás mañana haya desaparecido
curated by teresa macrì
4th october – 19th november 2011
On 4th October e x t r a s p a z i o gallery presents
Quizás mañana haya desaparecido (Maybe tomorrow will be gone), Guillermo Mora’s first
solo exhibition in Italy.
NO FIXED FORM
Minimal. Silent. Anxious. Precarious. Fluid. Outcast. Fragile. Disturbed. Attractive. Plasmatic.
Tempting. Post-pop.
Guillermo Mora’s sculptures seem to seize the liquid condition of the subject in the critical
and global pivot of topicality. In their materic multiplicity and in their formless and unstable
consistency they transit as discrete presences in an objectual universe where – still
inopportunely, tediously and inadequately – a spectacular and perfectly manipulated
aesthetic drags on, vacuous legacy of a post-eighties objectual opulence and symbolic
emblem of technocratic post-capitalistic fetishism.
But these little no fixed form sculptures which are manipulated by means of a postexistentialist pictorial process that crosses the state of solidification, or which reify
themselves as such after having been robbed of their anonymous randomness as objects
found in the street (hence homeless materials), or which assemble together through
empathy, or which appear to have been masticated like syrupy chewing gum, catapult us
into the stage of uncertainty.
At the same time they plunge us back into that aesthetic of precariousness which
countertrend artists like Jason Rhoades, David Hammons, Gabriel Orozco, Rirkrit Tiravanija,
Bojan Šarčević, Dieter Roth (and many others and in many ways) have employed as a
criticism of the late-capitalist system, galvanised and structured as a universe of objectual
vacuity, hyper-sensationalistic, which now appears in all its vexation and pathetic nature.
Mora’s sculptures actually have the most intimate and almost playful will to recline on their
own Self and inquire into their own sense of inadequacy, of unease and suspicion which,
reluctantly, coagulates with the state of global indeterminateness.
What appears in them is a glimmer of criticism of the real and the embarrassment of
perfectionism (illusory and fairytale-like), the objectual and systemic perfectionism of a
universe which is cloned, mendacious, improvident and far from realistic, in which we have
sailed on the surface and are now drowning.
Quizás mañana haya desaparecido is almost an aphorism by the artist, his mocking
awareness of the liquidity of the real, of the Ego, of matter, of the object, of thought. Quizás
mañana haya desaparecido does not pose the apocalyptic question of the world’s
existence but rather triggers doubt about the habitus in which a dialogical Self (and its
whole spectral universe) might be relocated.
Teresa Macrì
Rome, September 2011
Guillermo Mora was born in Alcalà de Henares (Spain) in 1980; lives and works between Rome and
Madrid. Among his solo exhibitions we mention: Dos episodios y un estadio (cur. P. Lag), LAB,
Injuve, Murcia, Spain (2011); Una pregunta diaria, Formato Cómodo Gallery, Madrid (2010); De un
soplo, Casa de la Entrevista, Alcalá de Henares; Tú la llevas (cur. I. Tejeda), Casa de Cultura, El
Campello, Alicante; Un paseo entre el dibujo, la pintura y un más allá
(cur. V. Torrente), Centro de Arte Joven de la Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid (2009).
Among his group exhibitions: Nomadismi (cur. T. Macrì), Real Academia de España en Roma,
Rome (2011); XII International Award for Young Artists, Luís Adelantado Gallery, Valencia; Explum
2010, International Contemporary Art Award, Puerto Lumbreras, Spain (2010); XX CIRCUITOS de
Artes Plásticas y Fotografía, Sala de Arte Joven, Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid (2009); XI
Biennial of Visual Arts, Pamplona, Spain; X International Show Union Fenosa, MACUF, La Coruña,
Spain; IX UNICAJA Biennial of Visual Arts, Palacio Episcopal, Málaga (2008); Generación 2007,
Caja Madrid Grants and Awards, La Casa Encendida, Madrid | La Capella, Barcelona | Museo
de la Pasión and Iglesia de las Francesas, Valladolid | Atarazanas, Valencia | Santa Inés, Sevilla;
Y si no han muerto, todavía están vivos, Museo Municipal de Coimbra, Portugal; Big Sky, LG
Space, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2007).
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