Mario Núñez

Le Laboratoire presents Travesías Mario Núñez's fifth individual exhibition, the first in its new space, in the San Miguel Chapultepec neighborhood, within the framework of the XV edition of Design Week Mexico.

Mario Núñez's paintings are like abstruse meshes made up of irregular fibrous fabrics, labyrinths of color that muddle texture and background. His paintings are inextricable tangles made up of twists and turns, detours and drifts, intertwined routes made to get nowhere. A touch of the fabric, caressing it with the fingers of the brush, as if making hundreds of ant paths in a microscopic landscape. Lines like imprints of a time that has passed; paint scars that become tantrums and hermetic plots. In the uncontrollable behavior of his drawing, there is some type of hypergraphism, a compulsion to fill sheets and sheets of words or scribbles, which leads him again and again to complicate the plot of his strokes. His paintings are a dance, a rhythm, a meditation, a humorous detour of thought, a playful twisting of straight lines; tricks to the geometric order that generate visual vibration, which can be heard (...)

— Fragment of the text written by Itala Schmelz