Pablo Rasgado: Wall to Wall
Wall to Wall, Pablo Rasgado's first solo exhibition with Steve Turner Contemporary, features ten paintings created during the last year. Opens March 18.
Six of Resgado's new works contain splatter gestures that he extracted from public sites in Mexico City; three are made from automotive exhaust and dirt that accumulated on a wall that was exposed to intense traffic; and one contains names that were scratched into the wall of a building in Havana.
Rasgado's work functions as an archive of contemporary human behavior. His process involves daylong wanderings in Mexico City and other urban centers where he searches for unusual occurrences within the metropolitan setting. When he finds something of interest, he seeks to record it, not in the typical manner of a photograph or other representation, but by extracting a subtle mark from the observed site. In so doing, he makes works that are at once poetic and visual as well as politically and socially relevant. Within his practice, he creates politically charged abstract paintings by using strappo , a Renaissance technique that enables him to extract painted/graffitied pictorial content from walls around the world. In so doing, he transforms political gestures into abstract paintings of transcendent beauty that make visible the paradox between a real event and the representation of it.
Born in 1984 in Zapopan (Jalisco, Mexico), Rasgado studied Visual Arts at the Autonomous University of Morelos State. He has received three grants from the Mexican National Fund for Culture and Arts. His work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City (2010); Stonehouse, Lagos (2010); Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, (2010); Muca Roma, Mexico City (2009) and the National Museum of Prints, Mexico City (2006). He lives and works in Mexico City.
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