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Jose Dávila
Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland, June 2 – September 11 2022.
Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland, June 2 – September 11 2022.
Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland, June 2 – September 11 2022.
Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland, June 2 – September 11 2022.
Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland, June 2 – September 11 2022.
Centro Internazionale di Scultura, Peccia, Suiza, 2021.
Centro Internazionale di Scultura, Peccia, Suiza, 2021.
Centro Internazionale di Scultura, Peccia, Suiza, 2021.
Forum Guanajuato, León, México, 2020.
Forum Guanajuato, León, México, 2020.
Forum Guanajuato, León, México, 2020.
Forum Guanajuato, León, México, 2020.
Forum Guanajuato, León, México, 2020.
Forum Guanajuato, León, México, 2020.
Forum Guanajuato, León, México, 2020.
Central Wharf Park, Boston, United States, 2020.
Central Wharf Park, Boston, United States, 2020.
Central Wharf Park, Boston, United States, 2020.
Museum of Contemporary Art of Querétaro, Mexico, 2020.
Museum of Contemporary Art of Querétaro, Mexico, 2020.
Museum of Contemporary Art of Querétaro, Mexico, 2020.
Museum of Contemporary Art of Querétaro, Mexico, 2020.
Museum of Contemporary Art of Querétaro, Mexico, 2020.
22nd Biennale of Sydney, Australia, 2020.
22nd Biennale of Sydney, Australia, 2020.
22nd Biennale of Sydney, Australia, 2020.
22nd Biennale of Sydney, Australia, 2020.
Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, United States, 2020.
Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, United States, 2020.
Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, United States, 2020.
Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, United States, 2020.
Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, United States, 2020.
Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, United States, 2020.
Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, United States, 2020.
2019. Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico. Curated by Amanda de la Garza.
2019. Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico. Curated by Amanda de la Garza.
2019. Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico. Curated by Amanda de la Garza.
2019. Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico. Curated by Amanda de la Garza.
2019. Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico. Curated by Amanda de la Garza.
2019. Detrás del muro. Curated by Juanito Delgado. La construcción de lo posible, XIII Bienal de la Habana, Cuba.
2019. Detrás del muro. Curated by Juanito Delgado. La construcción de lo posible, XIII Bienal de la Habana, Cuba.
2019. Detrás del muro. Curated by Juanito Delgado. La construcción de lo posible, XIII Bienal de la Habana, Cuba.
2019. Detrás del muro. Curated by Juanito Delgado. La construcción de lo posible, XIII Bienal de la Habana, Cuba.
2019. Detrás del muro. Curated by Juanito Delgado. La construcción de lo posible, XIII Bienal de la Habana, Cuba.
2019. Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico.
2019. Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico.
2019. Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico.
2018. Real Jardín Botánico, Madrid, Spain.
2018. Real Jardín Botánico, Madrid, Spain.
2018. Real Jardín Botánico, Madrid, Spain.
2018. Real Jardín Botánico, Madrid, Spain.
2018. Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, Germany.
2018. Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, Germany.
2018. Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, Germany.
2018. Museo Novecento, Florence, Italy. Curated by Lorenzo Bruni.
2018. Museo Novecento, Florence, Italy. Curated by Lorenzo Bruni.
2017. Parque San Jacinto, Guadalajara, Mexico.
2017. Parque San Jacinto, Guadalajara, Mexico.
2017. Los Angeles Nomadic Division, Getty Foundation, United States.
2017. Los Angeles Nomadic Division, Getty Foundation, United States.
2017. Los Angeles Nomadic Division, Getty Foundation, United States.
2017. Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom.
2018. Museo Novecento, Florence, Italy. Curated by Lorenzo Bruni.
2017. Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom.
2017. Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom.
2017. Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, Spain.
2017. Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, Spain.
2017. Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, Spain.
2017. Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, Spain.
2017. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany.
2017. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany.
2017. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany.
2017. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany.
2016. SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design), United States.
2016. SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design), United States.
2016. MARFA Contemporary, Texas, United States.
2016. MARFA Contemporary, Texas, United States.
2016. MARFA Contemporary, Texas, United States.
2016. MARFA Contemporary, Texas, United States.
2012. Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Mexico.
2012. Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Mexico.
2012. Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Mexico.
2012. Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Mexico.
2012. Art Public, Art Basel Miami Beach, United States.
2012. Art Public, Art Basel Miami Beach, United States.
Jose Dávila’s work originates from the symbolic languages that function within art history and Western visual culture. These pictorial, graphic and sculptural languages are reconfigured as contradictory and contrasting relations, taking the correspondence between form and content to its limit. The artist represents these oppositions through different perspectives: the association between images and words; the structural disposition of materials which entails the possibility of a harmonious balance or disarray; the use of peripheral routes in order to define architectural space and the presence of objects. Dávila’s work is essentially a multidisciplinary endeavor that presents a series of material and visual aporias, these paradoxes permit the coexistence of fragilty and resistance, rest and tension, geometric order and random chaos.
Jose Dávila uses the appropriation and recontextualization of iconic artworks in order to question the way in which we recognize and relate visually. A series of translations and editing procedures are employed in order to modify the normal procedure of identification; materials are modified, elements are highlighted or concealed, and the languages of art movements are reproduced with local resources and within a contemporary context.
Dávila’s sculptural work is based on the specificity of the employed materials; their origin, symbolic value and their formal characteristics are elements that take great significance. Industrial materials interact with organic raw materials. Influenced by his architectural background, Dávila arranges objects as if they were basic elements of drawing (point, line and plane) for creating systems that exemplify notions of equilibrium, stability and permanence. With these sculptures Dávila intends to provide visibility to the physical processes that are required in order for things to maintain their shape and occupy space in a specific manner. Human intervention and the material disposition of things produce hybrid systems that respond to structural intuitions; technique unfolds itself as a poetic dimension.
Jose Dávila studied architecture at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (Guadalajara, MX). He is a self-taught artist with an intuitive training.
His work has been exhibited at International Sculpture Center, Switzerland; Museum Berggruen, Berlin, GER; Haus Konstructiv in Zürich, CH; Biennale de Lyon, FR; Centro Internazionale di Scultura, Peccia, CH; Dallas Contemporary, US; Yuz Museum, Shanghai, CN; Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, MX; Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, DE; Museo Amparo, Puebla, MX; Museo del Novecento, Firenze, IT; Getty’s PST LA/LA Triennial, Los Angeles, USA; Sydney Biennial, Sydney Austraulia; Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, USA; Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, SP; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, DE; Marfa Contemporary, Marfa, USA; Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, USA; Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, NL; Rockefeller Plaza, New York; USA; Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, NL; Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo MUAC, Mexico City, MX; Caixa Forum, Madrid, SP; MoMA PS1, New York, USA; Kunstwerke, Berlin, DE; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, USA; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, SP; MAK, Vienna, AT; Fundación/Colección JUMEX, Mexico City, MX; Bass Museum of Art, Miami, USA; Museu de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo, BR; among others.
His work is part of international public and private collections such as Jumex, Tamayo, Mexico City; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, SP; Inhotim Collection, Brumadinho, BR; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburgo, DE. Dávila has been featured in international publications such as Cream 3, ed. Phaidon; 100 Latin American Artists, ed. Exit and the monograph The Feather and The Elephant, ed. Hatje Cantz.
Jose Dávila has been awarded with the 2017 Baltic Artists’ Award in the UK and is a 2016 Honoree of the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC, USA. Dávila has received scholarships and funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation and the Sistema Nacional de Creadores del Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Mexico.
The artist lives and works in Guadalajara.
2014. Adhesive vinyl film on archival pigment print. 183.5 x 125 x 130 cm
2013. Aluminum frames, paint, metal wire. 180 x 180 x 5 cm
2018. Glass and boulders. 125 x 539 x 54 cm
2015. Paint, glass, and wooden shelf. 100 x 100 x 20 cm
2015. Ceramics cuted and painted by hand. 100 x 100 x 20 cm
2013. metal frames and epoxy paint. 170 x 170 x 150 cm
2014. Archival pigment print. 50.8 x 61 cm
2014. Archival pigment print. 154 x 220 cm
2014. Cardboard box and gold leaf. 30 x 40 x 30 cm
2014. Gold leaf on archival pigment print. 270 x 180 cm
Practical Structures
2012. Cement, neon. 77 x 222 x 140,5 cm.
ARCOmadrid 2024 | Travesía Cuatro
Find Travesía Cuatro at Booth 9B04 at ARCOmadrid, IFEMA , Av. del Partenón 5, Barajas, 28042, Madrid, Spain.
VIP Preview: March 6 & 7
Public days: March 8 – 10
Travesía Cuatro is delighted to take part in the 43˚edition of ARCOmadrid with the work of Asunción Molinos Gordo, Teresa Solar Abboud, Álvaro Urbano, Mateo López, Donna Huanca, Jose Dávila, Ana Prata, Gonzalo Lebrija, Eleonore Koch, Jorge Méndez Blake, Jorge Eielson, Sara Ramo, Charlie Billingham, Guga Szabzo, Alexandre Estrela and Elena del Rivero.
ART BASEL, Miami Beach 2023 | Travesía Cuatro
Find Travesía Cuatro at Booth B34 at Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach, Convention Center, Miami Beach, Florida.
Private days: December 6 & 7
Public days: December 8 – 10
Artists:Álvaro Urbano, Teresa Solar Abboud, Mateo López, Donna Huanca, Jose Dávila, Ana Prata, Gonzalo Lebrija, Eleonore Koch, Jorge Méndez Blake, Milena Muzquiz, Goro Kakei, Sara Ramo, Mariela Scafati, Jorge Eielson, Guga Szabzon, Sofía Bassi and Alexandre Estrela.
NEW PUBLICATION: Jose Dávila, Memory of a Telluric Movement
The monograph Memory of a Telluric Movement, by Jose Dávila, comprises his homonymous exhibition from 2022 at Haus Konstruktiv in Zürich, as well as an interview with the show’s curator Sabine Schaschl and a text by Britta Schröder. Published by Impronta Casa Editora and designed by Luisa Mendoza and Alejandro Siordia.
Latin American Artists From 1785 to now
2023
Jose Dávila: Memory of a Telluric Movement
Impronta Casa Editora
Guadalajara, Mexico 2023
Jose Dávila, Exercises of the Possible
Artist: Jose Dávila
Authors: Pedro Alonzo, Louisa Edgerton, Frauke V. Josenhans, Patricia Martin, Humberto Moro, David Raskin, Sabine Schaschl, Karen Stein.
Graphic design by Rutger Fusch
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlang
Normal Exceptions: Contemporary Art in Mexico
Artists: Jose Dávila & Jose Méndez Blake
Authors: Kit Hammonds, Adriana Kuri Alamillo, Cindy Peña.
Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, 2021.
Colección de Arte Banco Sabadell / Banco Sabadell Art Collection
Contemporary Artists III
Artists: Jose Dávila, Teresa Solar
Author: Miquel Molins.
Banco Sabadell, 2020.
GUADALAJARA. Una geografía particular.
Una geografía particular (Grupos y Espacios en México. Arte contemporáneo de los 90)
Artists: Jose Dávila, Gonzalo Lebrija, Jorge Méndez Blake, etc.
Authors: Magalí Arriola, Monica Ashida, Patrick Charpenel, Teresa del Conde, Alejandro Davila, Juan José Doñan, Zélika Garcia, Baudelio Lara, Aurelio Lopez Rocha, Gabriela Lopez Rocha, Rubén Méndez, Humberto Moro, Paco Navarrete, Monica Nepote, Fernando Palomar, Guillermo Santamarina, Cristian Silva, José Noé Suro
Ediciones MP, 2018
Every Blind Wondering Ends in a Circle
Artist: Jose Dávila
Authors: Aurélien Le Genissel, Renato Della Poeta
Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, 2017
Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost
Artist: Jose Dávila
Author: Sacha Craddock
This Side Up, Travesía Cuatro, Madrid 2018
The Feather and The Elephant
Artist: Jose Dávila
Authors: Sacha Craddock, Valentina Jager, Brigitte Kölle
Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Berlin, 2018
Daylight Found Me With No Answer
Artist: Jose Dávila
Authors: João Fernandes, Geovana Ibarra, Shamim M. Momin and an interview between Jose Dávila and Gabriela Rangel.
This Side Up, Madrid, 2015
