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Jose Dávila

Jose Dávila
Guadalajara, Mexico, 1974
Lives and works in Guadalajara, Mexico

Dávila’s sculptural work is based on the specificity of the employed materials, their origin, symbolic value and their formal characteristics are elements that take great significance; industrial materials interact with organic raw materials. Influenced by his education in architecture, Dávila arranges objects as if they were basic elements of drawing for creating systems that exemplify notions of equilibrium, stability and permanence. With these sculptures, Dávila intends to provide visibility to the physical processes that are required in order for things to maintain their shape and occupy space in a specific manner. Human intervention and the material disposition of things produce hybrid systems that respond to structural intuitions; technique unfolds itself as a poetic dimension.

For Jose Dávila, the world that surrounds us contains an infinity of geometric structures and sculpture must behave as an adhesive territory where not only weights are negotiated, but also the expressiveness of matter, fragility and hardness, resistance and adaptability, or the symbolic character of the present and the past, through the objects and the stories they represent.

Through appropriation and recontextualization of iconic artworks, the artist questions the way in which we recognize and relate visually. A series of translations and editing procedures are employed in order to modify the normal procedure of identification; materials are modified, elements are highlighted or concealed, and the languages of art movements are reproduced with local resources and within a contemporary context.

Aporía, 2024

Concrete, metal, and marble

74 3/4 x 55 1/8 x 46 in

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Untitled, 2024

Glass and boulders

78 3/4 x 111 x 68 7/8 in Weight: 744 kg. approx.

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The weaker has conquered the stronger, 2021

Fiberglass, magnets, boulder, metal cylinder, and wire

Dimensions variable

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Homage to the Square, 2020

Polished stainless steel and epoxy paint

35 3/8 x 35 3/8 x 35 3/8 in

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Acapulco chair stack, 2022

Metal, epoxy paint, and boulders

66 7/8 x 141 3/4 x 82 5/8 in

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Orden Discontinuo, 2020

Silkscreen print on cardboard

28 3/4 x 24 3/8 x 1 3/4 in

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Esfuerzo Común, 2022

Concrete, metal, boulders, volcanic rock, one way mirror, and strap

259 7/8 x 124 in

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They combined single figures, 2019

Silkscreen print and acrylic paint on loomstate linen

86 1/8 x 135 3/8 x 2 3/8 in Each: 82 5/8 x 66 7/8 x 2 3/8 in

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The fact of constantly returning to the same point or situation, 2023

Silkscreen print and vinyl paint on loomstate linen

55 1/8 x 44 5/8 x 2 3/8 in Weight: 11 kg. approx.

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The rope sometimes bursts, 2022

Metal drums and ratchet strap

85 3/8 x 35 1/8 x 66 7/8 in Weight: 111 kg.

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Untitled (Cowboy), 2023,

Archival pigment print

60 3/4 x 80 1/4 x 3 in

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Jose Dávila | Grava Suelta | OMR

2022

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