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ART & DESIGN

JOSÉ DÁVILA

WORKING ACROSS A RANGE OF MEDIUMS INCLUDING PHOTOGRAPHY, SCULPTURE Photo by: José Dávila
AND INSTALLATION, DÁVILA’S WORK QUESTIONS THE INHERENT QUALITIES OF
MODERN ARCHITECTURE AND ART.

Davila´s work is fueled by architecture and urbanism. He Moderne de Saint-Étienne France; “We can go back to a
plays with humor, melancholy among other international venues. place we used to live in
his interest in the relationship of and a sense of loss and uses these Davila has been a grant recipient or visit often, and realize
place and fiction and the concurrent emotions as tools to create his work. of the Andy Warhol Foundation, that as we have changed
theme of space and temporality He considers Matta Clark, Judd the Kunstwerke residency in Berlin through time, the place
through architecture. His oeuvre is and Turrel his influences. Davila and the National Grant for Young is not the same either; we
presented in sculpture, photography has exhibited in PS1, New York; Artists from the Mexican Arts had a place in our head.
and installation. Kunstwerke, Berlin; San Diego Council (FONCA). Davila was This perception, this
As an architect, José Davila makes Museum of Art; Reina Sofia, born in Guadalajara. sort of creative illusion
constant reflections about modern Madrid; Prague Biennale, Camden He lives and works in Mexico City. is something I pursue in
Arts Centre, London; Musée de Art art.” - José Dávila

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