Mark Hagen

Saenger Galería presents Mark Hagen's first exhibition in Mexico City: Terapia de Color (Color Therapy). Based in Los Angeles, California, Hagen is now represented by Saenger Galería.

Spanning a wide variety of media, such as painting, ceramics, sculptures, and installations Hagen’s practice examines the relationship between systems, self-determination, and expression. His interests include the physical, institutional, and discursive parameters of art, the processes of production, artistic labor, social space and more broadly: repetition, accumulation and the boundaries of human perception among others. 

Terapia de Color  takes its title from an entry in “The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential”, a project initiated in 1972 by the non-profit NGO Union of International Associations (UIA), which ambitiously, systematically and artfully attempts to catalog the woes of humanity as well as the means of alleviating them. Ever since 2016 Hagen has titled his paintings after entries from its 1994 edition.

In Terapia de Color, Hagen will present a new suite of acrylic paintings on burlap in the artist’s signature anodized titanium frames, as well as new cement screen-like sculptures cast from plumbing connections referencing the gallery’s own conspicuous plumbing and in general referencing systems of distribution and control put to aesthetic ends.