JERÓNIMO ELESPE'S PALINODES IN MEXICO

From 04/04/2025 to 05/09/2025
Mexico City, México

Palinodia is the new and second exhibition of the Spanish artist at LABOR. It takes its name from the lyrical art of taking one’s own words back, a title that references the many changing points in his production. Large, vertical paintings, the biggest paper pieces yet, and an explosion of color rarely seen in his previous work, hang throughout the gallery’s walls.

JERÓNIMO ELESPE'S PALINODES IN MEXICO

Jerónimo Elespe’s (Madrid, 1975) palinodes are already part of his artistic practice; his paintings, both made out of paper and of aluminum, are formed by multiple layers of materials that have been added, removed, diluted, or covered, partially or totally by others. Palimpsests are created in narratives whose sources and references, regardless of their origin, are indistinctly part of the artist’s intimate experience and from where the personal and subjective resist the collective as the dominant structure.

 

The emphasis on process, materiality, and the different visual languages used, allows the artist to continuously search for open-ended results while suggesting his indifference towards an outcome. In this sense, Elespe’s proposal acquires a philosophical dimension regarding the non-linearity of time and the complexity of life experience through semi-transparent, fluctuating, and hypnotic surfaces, which are seductive in the sense that one can only try to decipher what is not absolute.

Palinodia will be on display from April 4 until May 9, 2025, at LABOR, located in FRANCISCO RAMÍREZ #5 COL. DANIEL GARZA, 11830 CDMX, Mexico City (Mexico).

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