Bobby Dowler & Mateo Revillo

Casa Gilardi presents Betwixt, Beyond and Unbound by Bobby Dowler and Mateo Revillo curated by Yasmine Helou. To visit the exhibition on the day of the opening it is necessary to make an appointment through this link.

Betwixt, Beyond and Unbound brings together the works of British artist Bobby Dowler (London, 1983) and Spanish artist Mateo Revillo (Madrid, 1993) at Casa Gilardi, architect Luis Barragan’s (Guadalajara 1902 - CDMX 1988) ultimate masterpiece. The house might seem still, but it is in constant motion, seeming almost alive. Animated by the soft and yet constant variations of natural light, the pool’s water hypnotic slick surface mirroring the crisp colorful walls, Barragan’s house is in perpetual choreography with the dancing shades of the Jacaranda Tree around which it was built. Thus, in an attempt to relate to the magnetic architecture of the space, and the vision of its author, both artists explore in their own fashion what can be in fact shaped by vibrant colors, sharp geometrics, and sculptural nature.

Although Bobby Dowler’s practice is based on transforming or reusing canvases and stretcher frames in order to create completely new compositions out of discarded or undesirable materials, it is often distinguished by strong colors and geometrical shapes. Dowler’s dynamic artistic process irremediably leads to a myriad of possibilities, perpetually questioning the very limit of his own work. The resulting arrangements are bold testimonies of a laborious process of assemblage, juxtaposition, reshaping, repainting, cutting, and stretching that sometimes could seem boundless, and yet appears to always find its trajectory and destination.

As much as Dowler’s research is anchored in form, matter and color, Matteo Revillo’s is rooted at the intersection of sculpture, painting, poetry, and architecture...

Sensitive of the surroundings, Revillo freely navigates through contexts and circumstances creating specific interventions that endorse and welcome a definite architecture, between precise aesthetics and spontaneous gestures. He draws, paints, sculpts, composes, breaks, recomposes, transforms, and imagines original scenarios within established ones, generating mystical atmospheres and intriguing perspectives, always in simplicity and coherence.

–Casa Gilardi

The exhibition can be visited by appointment through February 15 (please write to hey@yasminehelou.com / alessa@galeriaalegria.esp).