This spring in Mexico City, celebrated multi-disciplinary artist Bosco Sodi debuted an inspired presentation of works titled “Alabanzas” at Galería Hilario Galguera during this year’s edition of the ZONAMACO art fair. On view through April 7, the exhibition juxtaposed paintings, sculptures, and Sodi’s newest creation, a thought-provoking convergence of three gold-painted clay spheres with eight gold-pigmented burlap sacks, that promoted a unique dialogue on energy, harmony, and fluidity. The title of the show, meaning “praise,” paid respect to the duality of earth and sky within each of us. Sodi investigates our growth from nature’s terrain, while equally acknowledging our elusive and ever-compelling spirituality from the vast universe above.
Photo by Sergio López, © Studio Bosco Sodi, courtesy of the artist and 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.
Photo by Sergio López, © Studio Bosco Sodi, courtesy of the artist and Galería Hilario Galguera.
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.
Photo by Sergio López, © Studio Bosco Sodi, courtesy of the artist and Galería Hilario Galguera.
Photo by Sergio López, © Studio Bosco Sodi, courtesy of the artist and Galería Hilario Galguera.
Photo by Sergio López, © Studio Bosco Sodi, courtesy of the artist and Galería Hilario Galguera.
Photo by Sergio López, © Studio Bosco Sodi, courtesy of the artist and Galería Hilario Galguera.
