 Untitled, 2004 Black marble with semi-precious stones, 24" diameter Pablo Vargas Lugo Vague Statistique Plus Massimo Audiello is pleased to present a show of new works by Pablo Vargas Lugo. The exhibition follows two years of intense working and traveling trough Africa and India. The title of Pablo Vargas Lugo's show "Vague Statistique Plus" situates this New York show as a sequel for an exhibition presented at the "Sala Siqueiros" in Mexico City last year. In both shows the recurring imagery is that of measurements, of visual tools for providing knowledge and giving the world transparency and scale. Working against the purposefulness of those images (tools); he has embodied them with a materiality that relates them to landscape, organic growth and the subjectivity of time. At Massimo Audiello, the viewer will first find a "clock", a piece of round inlaid marble - the result of collaboration between the artist and the workshop of the Ahmed family in Agra, India - that gives a fixed time. Also included is a series of Vargas Lugo's paper-cut drawings set on rounded and triangular supports, their formats are reminiscent of the ones used for quick information bites in magazine layouts or web pages, but in this case they are filled with richly layered and weaved cutouts. It is as if the stark graphics of last month's "Economist" had started growing on their own. The same kind of organic growth seems to spur in a series of black marble pieces inlaid with blue and red circulatory patterns. Two monitors mounted on the wall brackets present a continuos flow of information, two very simple animations of graphs somehow left on their own; dots on a grid floating like dust in an empty room, and a statistical chart that flows and ebbs like waves on the beach. Lastly a mural made of hundreds of stickers of different size presents the topography and demographics of a bat cave, a somehow menacing image, but one that is also a representation of sleep and communal coziness. Drawing on imagery that is meant to give us an idea of where we are heading for, what we think, what we fear or what we should want, Vargas Lugo touches on something that contributes to our impression of the relentless march of the world, turning it into an image of stillness and of (menacing) quietness. Exhibition: March 19 - April 24, 2004 Gallery Hours: Tue-Sat 11 am - 6 pm Massimo Audiello Gallery 526 West 26th Street No. 519 New York, NY 10001 Telephone +1 212 675 9082 Fax +1 212 675 8680 Email info@massimoaudiello.com www.massimoaudiello.com |
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