Nara Roesler is pleased to announce the representation of Mexican artist Jose Dávila (Guadalajara, 1974). For more than two decades, Dávila has established himself in the international art scene with a practice marked by his approach to language and sculptural tradition from a perspective centered on the articulation between "constructive will" and the physical principles that govern nature.
Dávila's work is essentially multidisciplinary, as in addition to sculptures, objects, installations, and interventions, he makes use of two-dimensional supports. In his sculptural work, the specificity of the materials used, their origin, their symbolic value, and their formal characteristics are essential. Dávila looks at oppositions from different perspectives. He makes use of the association between image and word, also constructing arrangements that vary between harmony and disorder, fragility and resistance, calm and tension.
The artist had more than sixty solo exhibitions, as well as frequently participating in relevant events and group exhibitions around the world, such as the 16th Lyon Biennale (2022), the 13th Havana Biennale (2019), and the 10th Mercosur Biennale (2015). As an award-winning artist whose work is present in several institutional collections, Dávila developed a keen eye for space and the analysis of physical forces such as mass, balance, and materiality, establishing a formal repertory that dialogues with the history of art.
With the start of José Davila's representation, Nara Roesler hopes to strengthen relations between Latin American artists and institutions and will be marked by the realization of A pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king [A pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king], the artist's first solo show in Brazil, which opens to the public on November 11.