Tomás Díaz Cedeño, Michael Schmidt & Antoni Tàpies »666«

Tomás Díaz Cedeño, Michael Schmidt & Antoni Tàpies »666«

October 22 - December 4

Galerie Nordenhake Mexico presents 666, a group exhibition by Tomás Díaz Cedeño (Mexico City, 1983), Antoni Tàpies (Barcelona, 1932 - 2012) & Michael Schmidt (Berlin, 1945 - 2014). The group of sculptural, pictorial, and photographic works inquires into the urban and natural space of the city, and the interior landscapes. The title of the exhibition alludes to Tàpies' work Cap-666 (Head-666), which functions as an axis for thinking about the pictorial materialization of the historical and biblical depiction of evil.

The textures on the surface of the works provide specific information about each object. In the work of Tàpies & Schmidt, the pictorial and photographic textures can be interpreted as skins, torn apart by the armed conflicts that marked Europe in the 20th century. The landscape becomes a metaphor for the body, and hence, the personal fictions and fossilized forms of Díaz Cedeño suggest a material balance of the spaces stored in memory.