ISBN: 1935410288 9781935410287

Category: Art / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General

Page count: 47

NEW YORK, November 7, 2011-The Pace Gallery is pleased to announce an upcoming exhibition of new work by Mexican-born artist Bosco Sodi, featuring twelve large-scale, monochromatic paintings created in 2011 in Sodi's studio in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Bosco Sodi: Ubi sunt will be on view at 545 West 22nd Streetfrom December 9, 2011 through February 4, 2012. A catalogue with an essay by art historian, critic, andcurator Mark Gisbourne will accompany the exhibition. The title of Sodi's exhibition, Ubi sunt, is a medieval Latin phrase meaning Where are...?, which can be understood as a meditation on mortality and life's transience. In his catalogue essay, Matters of Memory and Material Intuition, Mark Gisbourne writes that Ubi sunt is an engagement with a lamentation of what is past brought into the present. Each of Sodi's paintings is a summary of his memories and collective experiences, made present by an arduous and direct method of creating that demands his full physical and emotional participation. Ubi sunt is also a concept that reflects the phenomenological experience of Sodi's art. Gisbourne states that Sodi's personal aesthetic view is realised through an arduous physical processing and manipulation of materials. But at the same time further characterised by their being inseparably embedded within the creative phenomenological intuitions that the materials are able to both generate and revivify. It is a personal equation where past and present experiences and associations are brought each time into a unique state of provisionalinternal unity.