PABLO RASGADO – TIMESCAPE
2021-10-18Timescape is a solo exhibition by Mexico City-based Pablo Rasgado that features three monumental paintings that the artist has been working on since 2015. Each consists of twentyfive to thirty painted passages that Rasgado has removed from public walls around the world including Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Paris, New York, Philadelphia and Charlotte, North Carolina, cities where he has worked for extended periods of time, and Mexico City, where he lives. The sections will be installed side-byside to produce a single work that spans more than sixteen feet in width and six years in time. In utilizing the Renaissance technique of strappo to extract painted passages in public space (originally developed to move frescoes from one location to another), Rasgado has created a new painting that functions as a literal
landscape of the various source cities. By foregoing allegory or representation, Rasgado assembles a work that is both a record of specific instances of time, place and circumstance and also an evocative image with multiple readings.
Opposite – Timescape 1, 2021
Exhibition runs through to November 20th, 2021
Steve Turner
6830 Santa Monica Blvd.
CA 90038
Los Angeles
