Recently I visited an exhibition in the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, titled „Durch Mauern gehen“ (“Walking through walls“) and saw an impressing piece there by Mexican artist, José Dávila (*1974). It is one of his newer pieces which are all imposing, fragile and space defining sculptures.
They play with physical forces like balance and mass. Material, fabric and surfaces lend this often very heavy sculptures lightness and fragility. They echo Minimal Art, Arte Povera or Art Concrete when, for example, very heavy marble slabs are put into a threatening slanting position through the use of simple and clever strutting or the ingenious use of intensely primary colored tension belts. Suspense is gained from mixing so different materials as marble and high tech tension belts and from the tactility of the forces of physics.
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