Jose Dávila

Name: Jose Dávila
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9783775744652
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Jose Dávila presents a comprehensive exploration of the artist's nearly two-decade practice, blending architecture and visual art. Dávila's work engages with 20th-century avant-garde art and architectural icons, drawing inspiration from figures such as Luis Barragán, Josef Albers, and Donald Judd. The book features sculptures, installations, and photographic works that balance humour with melancholy, highlighting tensions between industrial and organic materials as well as themes of compression and balance. It also includes critical essays on his early projects, public space art, and his graphic and painting exercises.
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This monograph will appeal to enthusiasts of contemporary art and architecture, students of visual and urban design, and readers interested in avant-garde influences and interdisciplinary artistic practices.

Description

In a practice spanning nearly two decades, Jose Dávila has created an expressive body of work that explores the visual tropes and iconic symbols of art, architecture, and urban design. Initially trained as an architect and self-educated as a visual artist, Dávila creates sculptures, installations and photographic works that simultaneously emulate, critique, and pay homage to 20th-century avant-garde art and architecture, referencing artists and architects from Luis Barragán to Josef Albers and Donald Judd.

Humour and melancholy co-mingle in works that often explore the tension between industrial and organic materials and the forces of compression and balance. This monograph assesses the full scope of Dávila's practice in all media for the first time, and includes texts attesting to the historical and social dimensions of Dávila's art.

Essays address the artist's early pieces, his exercises on balance, sculpture, graphics and paintings, and his works in public space.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783775744652

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 09 March 2023

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hatje Cantz

Illustration: 200 Illustrations

Contributors:

Text by Humberto Moro
Text by Patricia Martin
Edited by Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
Text by Louisa Edgerton
Text by Frauke V. Josenhans
Text by Pedro Alonzo
Text by Sabine Schasch
Text by David Raskin
Edited by Jeffrey Grove

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 250.0mm

Height: 295.0mm

Weight: 2060g

Pages: 312

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

JOSE DÁVILA (*1974, Guadalajara) studied architecture in the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente in Guadalajara. His carefully constructed artworks are meditations on balance and the relationship between different combined elements. Dávila lives and works in Guadalajara, Mexico.