With Alabanzas, Bosco Sodi Shapes an Ode to Civilization at Galería Hilario Galguera

With a background in both philosophy and art history, Sodi is known for shining a light on untraditional materials and deeply exploring the soulful, fleeting quality of all nature’s elements. His solo show “What Goes Around Comes Around” in 2022 was an ancillary event with Fondazione dell’Albero d’Oro at the Venice Biennale, and his work has been exhibited at institutions like the Dallas Museum of Art, Spain’s Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, and Chile’s Museo de Artes Visuales, with current pieces shown as part of over 40 private and public collections throughout the world.

In a magnetic juxtaposition of space, materials, and moments, the artist praised nature’s labyrinthine journey from ancient times to modernity. Sculptural paintings exhibit a collage of color, water, glue, and sawdust on canvas, encouraging fissures, fractures, and beautiful imperfections, reflecting those of our environment and ourselves across time. In a gracious use of clay, recognizing the material as a building block of all civilization, Sodi created both a terrestrial and ghostly environment, connecting the fragility and power of our ancestors with ourselves. Abstract architectural visions in turquoise, crimson, gold, and brick reminded us that the evolution of humankind, and our footprint from land to sea, is still very much unfolding.