The Pace Gallery in Chelsea is currently featuring 12 large-scale monochromatic paintings by Mexican artist Bosco Sodi in the exhibition Bosco Sodi: Ubi sunt. The paintings, which were completed last year in Sodi’s Brooklyn studio, feature the artist’s signature use of materials such as pigment, sawdust, water, glue, wood pulp, and other natural fibers. These materials are saturated in a variety of colors—primarily shades of pink, but also deep blue, and indigo—and have been derived from different countries including Morocco, Mexico, and India.
Each of Sodi’s paintings reflect his memories and experiences from various points in his life. Sodi explains his choice of materials by saying that “the energy that emanates from the organic matter is much stronger than that of other types of material, such as those created by man. That is an infinitely more intense dialogue with the soul. Of this type of matter we are composed and it is part of us.”
In the catalogue essay, Matters of Memory and Material Intuition, author Mark Gisbourne writes that Ubi sunt is an “engagement with a lamentation of what is past brought into the present.” At The Pace Gallery (545 W. 22nd St.) through Feb 4. The gallery is open Tuesdays through Fridays from 9:30 a.m. until 6 p.m.
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