Yucatecan artist William Gaber will open his exhibition Un techo sobre mi cabeza (“A Roof Over My Head”) this Thursday, February 27 at 8 p.m. at the Lux Perpetua Art Centre gallery (Calle 20 No. 87E by Calle 15, Colonia Itzimná). The exhibition brings together painting, sculpture, and installation, all of which explore the themes of architecture and geometric forms.
This is an exhibition in which these three mediums—painting, sculpture, and installation—come together. According to exhibition curator Alberto Arceo Escalante, the show engages with a highly complex visual construction.
“William makes us think about space, and how he redistributes architectural space onto a surface, which implies a very complex visual construction. He is an artist who analyzes the architectural nature of the pieces and constructs both the work and its dimension,” Arceo explained.
The artist’s project is inspired by a trip to Komichi, Japan, where 13% of the rooms are unoccupied. This sparked reflections on absence and presence, as well as the social factors surrounding them.
“One of the themes is processes of change and how we adapt to them; another is architecture as a container of human experience,” said William Gaber.
The collection features 32 works, ranging from small- and medium-format paintings to a large-scale sculpture inside the gallery that interacts with the museum space.
Alongside the gallery exhibition, a sculpture garden will open across the street. In this new space, three monumental sculptures by William Gaber will be installed, inspired by the tho bird and engaging in dialogue with the artist’s geometric explorations.
The exhibition will be on view until April 4.
William Gaber is a Yucatecan artist whose career has included exhibitions in cities such as Madrid and Mexico City, and who is now presenting his work in Mérida. The press conference was attended by Julio Carrillo Novelo, director of the Lux Perpetua gallery, and Mimi Cervera Villamil, coordinator of the Lux Perpetua project.
Edition: Fernando Sierra
