Eugenio Dittborn "Enteras Partes de Now and Then"
Alexander and Bonin
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Enteras Partes de Now and Then is an exhibition of 7 recent airmail paintings by Eugenio Dittborn.
For the first time since 1983, Dittborn’s paintings depart from the orthogonal regularity of four right angles and experiment with irregular supports and formats, creating perimeters of numerous vertical, horizontal, and sometimes diagonal sides. His materials of dye, embroidery, and photo silkscreen, consistent since the 1980s, achieve an altered resonant effect and a heightened sharpness against the irregularity of the new perimeters.
Dittborn’s ‘airmail paintings,’ unique in their lightness and mobility, continue to travel folded in their envelopes and are sent through the postal service from continent to continent, to be assembled at their destination or exhibition venue. The visual advantages of the large format are combined with the ease and rapidity of sending a letter.
Images used in the new work were drawn from a wide variety of sources: a 16th-century book on cannibalism in the New World, drawings made by a schizophrenic patient in a psychiatric hospital in Santiago in 1991, police records and newspapers from the 1940s and 1950s, a Pisanello mural, an engraving by José Guadalupe Posada, and El Codex Mendoza, a collaborative text by Aztec draftsmen and a Spanish Catholic priest.
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Schedule
from April 12, 2008 to May 17, 2008