{"id":2441426,"date":"2019-03-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=300631"},"modified":"2019-03-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T07:00:00","slug":"artist-gabriel-rico-to-open-first-american-exhibition-at-aspen-art-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/artist-gabriel-rico-to-open-first-american-exhibition-at-aspen-art-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Gabriel Rico to open first American exhibition at Aspen Art Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"
Gabriel Rico, “Crudelitatem,” 2016.<\/strong>
Courtesy Gabriel Rico and Perrotin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mexican sculptor and installation artist Gabriel Rico has, in recent years, become a standard-bearer for the vibrant and much talked-about contemporary art scene in Guadalajara, Mexico<\/a>. He emerged in American art galleries in 2017 with shows in New York and Dallas.<\/p>\n

But until now, the 38-year-old hasn\u2019t had a solo exhibition in an American museum. The Aspen Art Museum will host the first, opening Saturday, March 9.<\/p>\n

Titled \u201cThe Discipline of the Cave,\u201d the show promises to include new site-specific work made in response to the architecture of the ground-floor galleries at the museum.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is super ambitious,\u201d museum director Heidi Zuckerman hinted in the fall while she was working with Rico on the show\u2019s conception.<\/p>\n

Deeply influenced by earth sciences and philosophy, Rico brings a fresh surrealist vision to his installations \u2014 creating uncanny natural scenes and settings that mix taxidermy animals and preserved insects alongside neon lights and found objects like soda bottles and ceramic homewares. He often arranges found objects on walls to look like mathematical equations. Rico once spent five years working on one simple-seeming circular sculpture of found tree branches \u2014 patiently waiting to find the perfect shapes to make it.<\/p>\n

Carefully arranged, his works can be comic and creepy as they explore the relationships between humans and the natural environment (it\u2019s a fitting companion to Nina Katchadourian\u2019s ongoing video bird-watching installation \u201cTwitters and Cheaters\u201d in the museum\u2019s grand staircase).<\/p>\n

A trained architect, Rico designs spaces rather than just placing a work on a white wall. Don\u2019t be startled if you stumble across taxidermy birds and animals looking at his sculptures in Aspen \u2014 they\u2019re often part of the show.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the human brain, it can be tricky to define at first impression if the animal is alive or not,\u201d he said in a 2017 talk at Perrotin New York gallery. \u201cI want to work with that mystical discourse and possibility with my work.\u201d<\/p>\n

For his first museum show in America, Rico wanted to do more than showcase work.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is very interested in giving back,\u201d Zuckerman said. \u201cHe keeps stressing that he wants to make his show available and accessible.\u201d<\/p>\n

The museum has, so far, announced three educational and community events using Rico\u2019s work as a jumping-off point: a family workshop on June 8, an entry of the Arte en Espa\u00f1ol series for Spanish speakers also on June 8 and a talk by former Ute tribe chairman Roland McCook on indigenous animals in Western Colorado. The public is also invited to an opening reception on Friday evening.<\/p>\n

atravers@aspentimes.com<\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gabriel Rico, “Crudelitatem,” 2016.Courtesy Gabriel Rico and Perrotin Mexican sculptor and installation artist Gabriel Rico has, in recent years, become a standard-bearer for the vibrant and much talked-about contemporary art scene in Guadalajara, Mexico. He emerged in American art galleries in 2017 with shows in New York and Dallas. But until now, the 38-year-old hasn\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2441426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 00:11:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}