portfolio - jorge de la garza
DESCRIPTION
Selected Works 2007-2010TRANSCRIPT
Jorge de la Garza (Selected Works) 2007-2010.
Saturnine Archaeologybook pages, screen-print, drawing, quartz
crystals, wood, mirror, glass and lampdimensions variable (support: 60 X 120 cm)
Saturnine Archaeology (detail)book pages, screen-print, drawing, quartz
crystals, wood, mirror, glass and lampdimensions variable (support: 60 X 120 cm)
Untitled No. 1 (Book 11)collage
21 X 24 cm
Untitled No. 2 (Book 11)collage
10.5 X 19 cm
Untitled No. 1 (Book 12)collage
20.5 X 20.5 cm
Untitled No. 3 (Book 11)collage
13.5 X 30 cm
Untitled No. 1 (Book 9)collage
12 X 18 cm
Untitled No. 2 (Book 10)collage
19 X 26 cm
Untitled No. 2 (Book 9)collage
22 X 28.5 cm
Untitled No. 3 (Book 9)collage
22 X 28.5 cm
Untitled No. 1 (Book 10)collage
12 X 18 cm
Untitled No. 1 (Book 8)collage
13.5 X 20.5 cm
Untitled No. 4 (Book 1)collage
20 X 21 cm
Untitled No. 2 (Book 8)collage
19 X 25 cm
Untitled No. 7 (Book 2)collage
20 X 28 cm
Untitled No. 9 (Book 2)collage
20 X 28 cm
Untitled No. 8 (Book 2)collage
20 X 28 cm
Untitled No. 6 (Book 2)collage
20 X 28 cm
Untitled No. 1 (Book 7)collage
21.5 X 28 cm
Untitled No. 1 (Book 6)collage
16 X 23 cm
Untitled No. 1 (Book 5)collage
16 X 21 cm
Untitled No. 1 (Book 4)collage
17 X 23 cm
Untitled No. 4 (Book 2)collage
20 X 28 cm
Untitled No. 5 (Book 2)collage
20 X 28 cm
Untitled No. 3 (Book 1)collage
23.5 X 31.5cm
Untitled No. 1 (Book 3)collage
28 X 32 cm
Untitled No. 1 (Book 2)collage
20 X 28 cm
Untitled No. 3 (Book 2)collage
20 X 28 cm
Melencolia Variations (Variation No. 13)giclée print19.5 X 24 cm
Melencolia Variations (Variation No. 14)giclée print19.5 X 24 cm
Melencolia Variations (Variation No. 7)giclée print19.5 X 24 cm
Melencolia Variations (Variation No. 3)giclée print19.5 X 24 cm
The Familiar Black SlabmdF, tripods, FloodligHts, otHer materials
dimensions variable
Arrangement No. 17-piece porcelain set
dimensions variable (support: 26 X 26 cm)
Arrangement No. 26-piece porcelain setdimensions variable
Untitled (from ‘Studio’ series)c-type print29.7 × 42 cm
Untitled (from ‘Studio’ series)c-type print29.7 × 42 cm
Golden Momentsc-type print29.7 × 42 cm
Exhibition Views.
The Marienbad Palace, 2010droicHead arts centredrogHeda, ireland
The Marienbad Palace, 2010HigHlanes gallerydrogHeda, ireland
The Marienbad Palace, 2010HigHlanes gallerydrogHeda, ireland
The Marienbad Palace, 2010HigHlanes gallerydrogHeda, ireland
New Contemporaries, 2009cornerHouse & a FoundationmancHester & london, uk
After Dark, 2008eleven gallerylondon, uk
- my work -
I am a multidisciplinary artist whose work includes collage, print, sculpture, photography and video. My current work explores aspects from metaphysics, existentialism, psychology, occult-
ism and popular culture. Reassembling appropriated material, photographing oblique configura-tions and building totemic structures; my current practice consists of a series of ‘mystifications’ deploying the reflective sheen of the modern commodity and the hermetic allure of the occult.
- collages -
Coming from a ‘revisionist’ perspective; my collage practice appropriates images found in sec-ond-hand books using them as vehicles of metaphysical inquiry. Through a series of concor-
dances and juxtapositions, I try to create new, unresolved images that explore the fundamental nature of being and the world. Responding to a personal mythology, the collages contain re-curring motifs, such as the human figure, the stone, the triangle, the hand gesture, the vast-ness of space, among others. In this manner, I seek to challenge fixed meanings attached to
images, and establish a personal language in which to express a particular subjectivity.
- biograpHy -
Jorge de la Garza graduated from MA Fine Art at Chelsea College in 2007, and was re-cently selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2009; his work has also been fea-
tured in Late at Tate at Tate Britain, the Wormhole Saloon at the Whitecha-pel Gallery and The Projection Gallery at the Liverpool Biennial.
Jorge de la garza
Mexico City (1978). Lives and works in London53 Fields Estate, Albion Drive, London (e8 4lu)+44 (0) 7726 175100 | [email protected]
www.jorgedelagarza.org
education & qualiFications
ma Fine art (2007). Chelsea College of Art & Design. london, ukpostgraduate diploma Fine art (2005-2006). Byam Shaw School of Art. london, uk
pHotograpHy (2000). GrisArt Escola de Fotografia. barcelona, spainba media studies (1997-2002). ITESM. monterrey, meXico
FortHcoming eXHibitions
group sHow (2010). Man&Eve. london, uksolo sHow (2010). First Floor Projects. london, uk
selected group eXHibitions
tHe marienbad palace (04-08/2010). Highlanes Gallery & Droichead Arts Centre. drogHeda, irelandsubteXt(s) (12/2009). Pages of Hackney Basement Gallery. london, uk
galeria progresso presents (11/2009). Galeria Progresso. london, uknew contemporaries (09-12/2009). Cornerhouse & A Foundation. mancHester & london, uk
“take me, sHow me, i‘m absolutely yours” (10/2008). Gallery 52a. london, ukaFter dark (05/2008). Eleven Gallery. london, ukdeeparture (03/2008). Front Projects. london, uk
ma sHow (09/2007). Chelsea College of Art & Design. london, ukHow we may be (08/2007). Late at Tate - Tate Britain. london, uk
tHe wormHole saloon v (11/2006). Whitechapel Gallery. london, uknot out oF tHe woods yet (10/2006). The Projection Gallery - Independents Biennal. liverpool, uk
miX cities (09/2006). Espace Khiasma. paris, Francedisplay until (07/2006). Byam Shaw School of Art. london, uk
knee-Jerk (04/2006). Byam Shaw School of Art. london, uksmall (04/2006). Kingsgate Gallery. london, uk
pg dip world (03/2006). Byam Shaw School of Art. london, uksubForm 05 (08/2005). ObjectNotFound Project Room. monterrey, meXico
bibliograpHy
new contemporaries (Feb 2010). Review in Art Monthly by Martin Herbertstolen moments (Feb 2010). Interview in online magazine <http://www.spinetv.net/magazine>
bloomberg new contemporaries (2009). Exhibition CataloguetHe new simplicity (apr 2009). Elle Decoration UK
www.jorgedelagarza.org