Jose Dávila’s The Moment of Suspension Presented by KÖNIG GALERIE

Tim Fujio
  • December 11, 2019
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At KÖNIG GALERIE’s St. Agnes, Guadalajara-based artist Jose Dávila has presented a collection of new works as part of an exhibition titled The Moment of Suspension. The exhibition is Dávila’s third solo with KÖNIG GALERIE.

With a focus on interdisciplinary, concept-oriented and space-based media such as sculpture, video, sound, painting, printmaking, photography and performance, KÖNIG GALERIE is an art gallery founded by Johann König that represents a total of 40 international artists. Constructed in the 1960s, St. Agnes is a former church with Brutalist architecture that is now occupied by KÖNIG GALERIE. 

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The Moment of Suspension is composed of pieces that are made from materials and objects such as basalt stone, volcanic rock, limestone, concrete, belts, etc.

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“Intimating utopian ideals, uncut rock and sculpted concrete are brought into uneasy congruence, realizing an equilibrium that holds differently weighted materials in place,” said KÖNIG GALERIE.

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“While the language of sculpture traditionally speaks to solidity and permanence, Dávila’s work evinces a decided fragility that contrasts with the density of the materials he puts to use,” explained KÖNIG GALERIE. “As though verging on the brink of collapse, his take on sculptural form introduces viewers to a clash of directional energies, resulting in a precarious appearance that undercuts monolithic stability. What comes to light is less a single unified object than an exchange of physical forces, a cross-section of elemental processes that refer to the inexorable law of gravity.”

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“Dávila’s articulation of space mimics primal human behaviors, such as stacking and balancing, underscoring their capacity to express a collectively shared impulse toward construction,” added KÖNIG GALERIE.” Several works in The Moment of Suspension feature uncut rock tethered to angular concrete blocks by a ratchet strap. An aura of weightlessness halos the topography of the linked stones. As individual works, these layered sculptures foreground the disintegrating influence of time, concretizing an entropic process that ends in perpetual stasis.”
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