Allan Villavicencio

Galería Karen Huber presents El borde en donde estar by Allan Villavicencio, curated by Daniel Montero Fayad.

Allan Villavicencio returns to the gallery with a body of work that continues to try to answer the same question that has surrounded the artist since his beginnings: "what is the space of painting in contemporary times, in the double sense to which this question refers: the space of painting itself, that is, as a product of an accumulation and a subtraction of colored matter on a surface that produces forms; but also the problem of the place that painting occupies in the now of images as a product of a history, of a theoretical reflection and of a sensibility. For the exhibition El borde en donde estar, however, this reflection has been approached in a singular and unprecedented way, in which the pictorial space is the result of a tension between the inside and the outside of painting and at the same time as a meditation on how the act of painting is constituted in relation to the spatial interstices: those that occur between the paintings but also what the distance between the person who paints (physically, sensitively and intellectually) and the act of painting itself (the action of painting, painting as action) implies.

In recent years, Villavicencio has taken part in numerous exhibitions in Mexico, France, the United States, the United Kingdom, Turkey, Spain, Colombia, Peru and Austria. Recent solo exhibitions include: There is no center, just turn around at Museo Experimental El Eco (CDMX, MX, 2024), The Active Side of Infinity at Galerie Mitterrand (Paris, FRA, 2023), frutiplanismo at Salón ACME (CDMX, MX, 2022) and Pieles ciegas at Galería Karen Huber (CDMX, MX, 2021). He has held several residencies, including Casa Nano (Tokyo, JP, 2024), Casa Wabi (Costa Chica, MX, 2020) and Cité des Arts (Paris, FR, 2019). His work has been exhibited in institutions such as Museo Experimental El Eco, Museo Tamayo, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Museo de Arte de Sonora, among others. Allan Villavicencio is currently a beneficiary of the National System of Art Creators (SNCA). He received the Honorable Mention at the XVIII Rufino Tamayo Painting Biennial in 2018 (Museo Tamayo, Mexico City) and was a recipient of the Young Creators grant awarded by FONCA on three occasions.

—Karen Huber Gallery

Gallery participating in GAMA WEEK from September 19 to 22, 2024.