JOSE DÁVILA
LOS LÍMITES DE LO POSIBLE

PRIVATE COLLECTION, VALLE DE BRAVO, MEXICO
PERMANENT INSTALLATION SINCE 2021

As a sculptural forest, Dávila proposed a series of works made with volumes of Tepeaca marble and raw stones. The interplay between the angular geometric shapes of the enclosure volumes and the capricious edges of the undisturbed stones reveals a contrasting relationship. This material divergence highlights the need for active collaboration between the elements involved in order to achieve a situation of permanence and balance. The raw materials integrate organically with the environment where they are installed; the main intention is to produce a contemplative space where viewers can relate on a spatial level with the sculptures that take technical processes to poetic dimensions. The vertical accumulation of the volumes of the enclosure and the raw rocks express a primary structural intuition that materializes in the most basic manifestation of construction.
LOS LÍMITES DE LO POSIBLE, 2020
Concrete and Tepeaca marble

© Courtesy of the artist and Travesía Cuatro, Madrid
© Images Agustín Arce

FEATURED ARTIST

JOSE DÁVILA
Jose Dávila (b. 1974 in Guadalajara, Mexico) studied architecture at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente in Guadalajara, Mexico, however, he considers himself a self-taught artist, with an intuitive formation.

Jose Dávila’s work is a constant search for moments of shared reciprocity between contradictory elements. By means of a structural intuition, Dávila produces constructive situations in which tension and stillness, geometric order and random chaos, fragility and resistance, are fluctuating commonplaces for materials in continuous transformation.

Based on the specificity of the materials that he ...
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