El palacio a las 4 de la mañana

Saenger Galería presents El palacio a las 4 de la mañana, a group exhibition curated by Alberto Ríos de la Rosa.

In 1932, Alberto Giacometti presented The Palace at 4 a.m., a construction that inaugurated in the sculptural field the operation of transferring intimate experience into the realm of spatial structure. The artist linked the piece to six months spent with a lover with whom, night after night, he built "a fragile palace of matchsticks," and in that gesture he encoded the very concerns that this exhibition takes up: namely, spatiality as a vehicle for affective states, material precariousness as a poetic condition of form, and the repetition of making as a simultaneous mode of knowledge and desire.

The first axis revolves around the temporal mark of the title. Four in the morning names the perceptual threshold at which daytime consciousness gives way and the logics of the unconscious emerge. The pieces unfold within an expanded temporality where past, present, and future overlap with the fluidity of a dream. Wax surfaces that preserve the thermal imprint of what passed through them, anthropomorphic volumes that dispense with gravity, the suspended hour of dawn, and landscapes where dance and combat share a choreography—all converge in a single dislocation of linear time.

The second axis examines constructive fragility as a central rupture of modern sculpture. Giacometti abandoned compact volume to propose a psychic, transparent, and traversable structure. The works extend this investigation through ceramic assemblages whose stability depends on spatial tensions, stone modules whose poise is negotiated between their parts, modular weaves that reiterate the act of reconstruction, and found objects that become sculptural devices without renouncing their organic origin.

The exhibition becomes a resonance chamber between the legacy of the Swiss sculptor and contemporary production, understood as a living structure ready to collapse and be rebuilt each time someone crosses its threshold.

Artists: Andrés Anza, Pablo Arellano, Liz Capote, Paula Cortazar, Diego de Romay, Diego Inestrillas, Raúl Mirlo, Cristobal Ochoa, Natalia Ramos y Miriam Salado.

—Alberto Ríos de la Rosa