MATEO LÓPEZ – DRAWINGS
2021-03-29In March of 2020, after six years in Brooklyn, NY, López returned to his native Bogotá to wait out the quarantine. The familiar act of putting graphite to paper was a comfort in a moment of uncertainty. In his own words, “I just need time, a table, and I can start drawing. When we started quarantine, I was drawing like mad. Like everyone, I felt very emotional. I was trying to release that.”
The included drawings are part of an ongoing installation-based series titled “Old Ideas Stuck in Corners,” begun in 2015. The series consists of a modular reconstruction of a wall made out of multiple pine panels tacked with a myriad of works on paper that are continually rearranged and replaced over time. While the wood partition is currently located in the artist’s vacant Brooklyn studio, López’s works on paper exist as an ever-evolving creative action representative of his studio process. López’s multifaceted practice spans diverse fields of study, from architecture and design to educational theory and dance. These varied conceptual interests take form in works on paper, sculpture, site-specific installation, and performance. López’s latest drawings revisit the fundamentals of his background in technical draftsmanship and architecture by using ‘line’ as a point of departure.
Opposite – Bricolage, 2021
Exhibition runs through to April 24th, 2021
Casey Kaplan
121 West 27th Street
10001
New York
