SPRING 2024:
Gabriel Rico
Gabriel Rico. Augustus Owen Foundation VERSION fro the series - Excessive butter -, 2024.
White-tailed deer taxidermy & different balls, Approx. 38.75” H x 18” W x 25 1/2” D. All images by Kevin Todora.
Born in 1980 in Lagos de Moreno, Mexico
Lives and works in Guadalajara, Mexico
Gabriel Rico’s work is characterized by the interrelation of seemingly disparate objects. A self-proclaimed “ontologist with a heuristic methodology,” Rico pairs found, collected, and manufactured materials to create sculptures that invite viewers to reflect on the relationship between humans and our natural environment. He frequently uses neon, taxidermy, ceramics, branches, and more personal pieces of his past to create an equation or formulation, achieving a precise geometry despite the organic, roughly hewn character of his materials. His installations ironically and poetically combine natural and unnatural forms, insisting on a necessary contemplation of their asymmetry as well as our own cultural and political flaws.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Arizona Art Museum (ASU), Phoenix, AZ, USA
ArtNexus Foundation, Colombia & USA
Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
FMC (Frans Mesereel Centrum), Kasterlee, Belgium
Korean Ceramic Fundation (KOCEF), Seoul, South Korea
MASIN (Museo de Arte de Sinaloa), Culiacan, Mexico
The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami, Florida, USA
Taguchi Art Collection, Japan
Voorlinden Museum, Wassenaar, Netherlands
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