José Luis Landet | Mario Palacios Kaim

Arróniz presents two solo exhibitions at the gallery, by José Luis Landet and Mario Palacios Kaim.

Main room: José Luis Landet

I think of my work as the place where there are different ways of operating and assimilating cultural processes traversed by social, political and ideological actions. I am interested in investigating some vestiges or socio-cultural wastes, for example: recovering painted landscapes (oil on canvas, produced between 1940 to 1970), with a certain Romantic or Bucolic look, made by amateur painters. A search for a particular notion of paradise, in order to recreate an apocryphal individual.

These images (paintings) and other symbolic elements such as everyday objects, photographs, letters, postcards, super 8 films, slides, writings, magazines and books are part of the materials with which I work, in a material and conceptual deconstruction.

When I find these objects, they have a thick background composed by memories, time and use. It is important for me to analyse each one of them, take a photographic record, classify and, later on, manipulate them according to the needs of the project in turn.

Usually these actions have to do with filing, cutting, breaking, covering, forging, submerging, fragmenting, simulating, getting them out of the shadows and resignifying them. These are metaphoric and poetic actions.

Public and private

The Utopian Past

The dystopic present

The Universal History

— José Luis Landet

Project room: Mario Palacios Kaim

Las “cosas” que ahora presento, son ellas mismas.

Habitan en este vasto territorio que se encuentra un paso adelante de donde el lenguaje termina, un paso previo al nacimiento de la palabra.

Estas “cosas”, permanecen fuera del alcance de la definición, lejanas a las categorías. No rechazan ni aceptan interpretaciones. No rechazan ni aceptan discursos que pudieran evocar.

Se mantienen indiferentes.

Nacen de la coincidencia, la sincronicidad y el destino.

Son hijas de la obediencia, no de la libertad. Su finalidad, no está en el futuro. Su finalidad, sobrevive en una zona de indiferencia que se actualiza necesariamente cada instante.

El mundo del arte, no es su único mundo.

Ellas son ellas mismas

— Mario Palacios Kaim

Zone of indifference, is a set of polyester fabrics exposed to the sun under cut steel plates of car armor – the plates were kindly donated by the Mexican company Ballistic Group in 2015 and for its sun exposure, Juan Carlos García Salas provided the roof of his house, located in the forests near Valle de Bravo.

Self-taught, the artist originally from Mexico City, has a long history that includes painting, drawing, printing, packaging, installation and actionism. And his artistic production is in public and private collections, both domestic and foreign. Symbolic concepts, spatial notions and visual elements brought into play by Palacios Kaim are, among others: the sign, the particle, the tension, the force, the stability, the rupture, the rhythm, the simultaneity and interaction. The artist builds images – abstract and diagrammatic – of existing bodies in a symbolic version of the Cartesian Plane, which can be interpreted in astral, mental or merely formal.

Support team: Alejandro García García, Víctor Hugo López Téllez, Salvador Loza Rebollar, Cristina Navarrete Madero, Fabiola Téllez Cástulo.