David Rodríguez Caballero “Vinyls”
Marlborough (Midtown)
[Image: David Rodríguez "29.september.2015" (2015) vinyl on paper, diptych, each 40 x 30 in.]
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The Directors of Marlborough Gallery presents an exhibition of recent work by the Spanish-born artist, David Rodríguez Caballero entitled Vinyls. This will be the first showing of the artist’s works in vinyl in the United States, a body of work that complements his established sculptural practice. Rodríguez Caballero is known for his compelling and rigorous methods of defining space, light and color using various metals in the way another artist might manipulate fabric or paper.
Rodríguez Caballero began his artistic career as a painter, but moved on from the medium to explore his pervasive and dynamic fixation on the impact of light. As a sculptor, he folds aluminum, bronze, copper, or brass in order to create planes which capture light as a multiplicity of gradients. These metal works, whether freestanding or wall-mounted, engage with their surrounding space and utilize light as an essential material element. The artist extrapolates this notion through these new works in vinyl, in which he allows light to permeate the complex arrangements of translucent polychromatic strips. Through this process, the works achieve varying depths encouraged by tone, composition and texture. They present a rich contradiction as they possess both a sense of reticence and immediacy. Seemingly understood at first glimpse, these works in vinyl reveal themselves to the viewer as arrays of distortions, as compositions of various depths. Each of these works becomes a play of its surrounding light.
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Schedule
from February 04, 2016 to March 05, 2016