Rodolfo Díaz Cervantes & Marco Rountree

Saenger Galería, together with Centro de Arte Limantour, presents al alimón, a group exhibition featuring the work of Rodolfo Díaz Cervantes and Marco Rountree.

After collaborating for several years in the Colectivo de producción artística Vigueta y Bovedilla, Díaz Cervantes and Rountree now present, in a dialogue where their own voices intertwine, a new body of work and site-specific interventions conceived in and for Casa Limantour. This collaboration brings together Marco’s ability to create assemblages with diverse materials—proposing new narratives around the everyday, the discarded, and the hidden qualities of matter itself—with Rodolfo’s practice, nourished by improvisation, accidents, impulses, and small acts repeated monastically as pathways toward unexpected outcomes.

This exercise, signed al alimón, presents not so much a previously unseen set of studio works as the result of a residency where experimentation, improvisation, and intervention converge in the exhibition space itself. During their stay, this ongoing conversation between the artists and the space that hosts them, the materiality, and the finish of the works and interventions function as a common thread, as does the gleam of objects, tools, and plastic, metal, or chrome utensils—bringing together diverse elements that would otherwise remain unrelated.

Nevertheless, the strangeness, beauty, and unease imparted by the artists have endowed the architectural and symbolic space with the logic that gives meaning to an abstract universe bound together by cutlery on a wall. Thus, the spaces of Casa Limantour cease to be a museographic site of heavy architectural weight to become a spatial logbook of art outside the studio, built from production, search, construction, acquisition, invention, experimentation, and intervention.

In this way, al alimón emerges from the dance between two voices, where words and intentions articulate themselves in a dialogue of mutual understanding. Here, the voices of Díaz Cervantes and Rountree coexist in a space that hosts them, inviting both traversal and intervention; a tribute to conversation and to the natural processes between two creators, two colleagues engaged in a playful exercise.

–Saenger Galería