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Dennis Miranda ZamoranoA landscape anchored in memory is a labyrinth, 2023Mixed media on canvas190 x 190 cm (74 3/4 x 74 3/4 in)
24 November 2023 – 6 January 2024Vernissage: Friday 24 November, 6 – 8 pm4 rue des Minimes, 75003 ParisGalerie Marguo is proud to present Falling Upwards, an exhibition by Mexican artist Dennis Miranda Zamorano. On view from 24 November 2023 to 6 January 2024, this is the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.Through painting and drawing, Dennis Miranda Zamorano’s work materially and metaphysically grapples with the slippery passages between painting and image, figuration and abstraction, language and meaning. Through an intensely physical process, Zamorano attempts to prolong this fall: the negotiation between the thing-in-itself (an encounter, object or memory) and its representation. -
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Dennis Miranda Zamorano's monolithic tableaux are inescapably material. They are formed by the accretion of hundreds of layers of house paints, oils, acrylics, and watercolor, from which the pictorial elements are excavated via abrasion, scoring, power washing, chemical dissolvement and the naturally corrosive elements of the outdoors, where the artist stores his canvases while working between them simultaneously.
Created over a five-month period, the works in this show are
thus linked to the provisional temporal context in which they were made and the passage of time itself. -
Dennis Miranda Zamorano
Love, 2023Mixed media on canvas
Diptych
Overall 190 x 260 cm (149.6 x 102.3 in)
Each 190 x 130 cm (74.8 x 51.18 in)
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Site specific installation at Bar SAKA
Dennis Miranda Zamorano
Between memory and oblivion, language is born, 2023Mixed media on canvas
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Dennis Miranda Zamorano’s works La niña blanca and This is supposedly a castle, among the more layered, corroded and thus abstract works, dispense with vanishing points altogether, obfuscating the stabilizing, linear perspective, like that of the horizon at sea, to further stoke disorientation. Yet without a horizon or stable ground, falling can feel like floating. In trying to take in these mesmerizingly complex abstractions, one discovers that the image is always already there.
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Dennis Miranda Zamorano
Family portrait (everything is silence there), 2023Mixed media on canvas
260 x 400 cm (102 3/8 x 157 1/2 in) -
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Both the themes of Zamorano’s work and his technical approach to color, subject, and composition are informed by his upbringing in La Lagunilla, one of Mexico City’s historic open-air markets, where his family has worked for generations.For the artist, the dynamism and ephemerality of the marketplace, with its encounters and disputes, economies of objects, aesthetics, and desires are analogous to the act of constructing a painting. Like the marketplace, the canvas is a site of grappling and negotiation between the infinite choices that constitute a work of art.
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I'm trying to link ideas, I'm trying to link experiences. I'm trying to link nostalgia, I'm trying to link my own melancholy, I'm trying to link things, and I'm trying to create my own Tiangis.— Dennis Miranda Zamorano
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Dennis Miranda Zamorano
"I don't know. This has always been the case", 2023Mixed media on canvas
180 x 190 cm (70 7/8 x 74 3/4 in) -
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Dennis Miranda Zamorano
Ones you forget to go back, you're not going anywhere (desire and melancholy), 2023Mixed media on canvas
260 x 360 cm (102 3/8 x 141 3/4 in) -
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For me, painting doesn't have to be the representation of something. For me, painting is the manifestation of something. And those entities that I paint here, that comes out of that field of a lot of matter have their own desires.— Dennis Miranda Zamorano
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Dennis Miranda Zamorano
Abandonment is also a home, 2023Mixed media on canvas
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Portrait of Dennis Miranda Zamorano. © Dennis Miranda Zamorano. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Marguo.
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