Jose Dávila

1974, Guadalajara, Mexico

 

Like other Mexican artists from his generation, he stakes on work in which the message is as important as the formal aspect. He is very close to the conceptual art that was all the rage in the 60s and 70s, so his contribution is often considered a revised update of the basic fundamentals of this tendency. Dávila consciously works on projects with little chance on the art market, which he criticizes through installations of ephemeral life spans, produced outside the customary art circuits. He seeks emblematic spaces in which to locate his particular game of transformations, and once he has found them he works with scaffolds.



Jose Dávila, Space after Space, Wood, neon lights, plastic plafonds, 2007