RICARDO RENDÓN 522 W 23RD STREET, NY, NY 10011 T. + 1 212 510 7593 www.vickydavid.com
RICARDO RENDÓN
RICARDO RENDÓN Nov 8th, 2012 - Jan 12th, 2013
Open Works
Artist’s studio, México City
BIOGRAPHY Gathering all kinds of materials and giving room to multiple formal solutions, media and work procedures, Ricardo Rendón’s work functions as a complex diary where the actions are recorded, documented and accumulated in the transformation and manipulation of the materials and the working place.
Rendón has participated in exhibitions at the Reina Sofía Museum, the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Videobrasil, Videolisboa, the UCSD University Art Gallery, the Museo Experimental El Eco, the Museo Tamayo, the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, the Museo de Arte Moderno and the Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City. His work is part of important contemporary art collections, such as the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation CIFO, The Bank of America, La Colección Jumex, the Isabel & Agustin Coppel Collection and Fondation Daniel Langlois. He is a professor at Centro Nacional de las Artes, member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores and juror and tutor of the FONCA’s Jóvenes Creadores grants program. Lives and works in Mexico City.
“His works are an appendix of construction or destruction practices that enunciate the moment where things happen, forms that propose the action as leitmotiv.” (David Miranda, Museo Experimental El Eco, 2007)
“Ricardo Rendón proposes an epic that assaults architectures and objects equally. Its working project establishes a direct dia- logue with the capital gain originated by the difference between the wages paid to the worker and the value generated by its manpower within the capitalist system. It is a query on the work and its sense by means of the experience. A narrative that the artist establishes leaving in most cases the waste of its activities within the place of intervention: swept to a corner, gathered inside a transparent container or scattered around the working site. Thus, he proposes a gesture that alludes to its procedure, a commemoration of every moment destined to the production of the capital gain.
His work includes reflections that go from the micro to the macro, continuously restituting the work of the artist by its execution in a direct dialogue with the edification construction.Rendón constructs an aesthetic derived from the Hegelian dialectic of the master and the slave, determining that the truly free individual will be the slave. This last one is who works with the objects, learning to be different from them by its manipulation and transformation.” (Lourdes Morales, 2009) 8
« My work is designed as a system of inquiry into creative practice. It is a search for meaning that not only un- covers motivation, answering the question of why to create, but also permits a critical appraisal of the role of the subject who performs personal work. Reassessing the creative process allows me to make sense of making art through experiencing its continual realization. It consists of determining my subjective reality and setting in motion my creative faculties, which enable the emergence of new understandings. In this way, experience, consisting of the development and accumulation of moments of creation, informs my strategic orientation towards my surroundings. Accordingly, I recognize that as the subject of creative doing, I am shaped by possibilities, events, dialogues and interpretations in a place of continual transformation, a setting of action and experience in which creative activity is restricted only by the physical limits of workspace and materials. » Ricardo Rendón, 2011
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SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2012 VISUAL RYTHM, BMOCA Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado, USA MEXICO: EXPECTED/UNEXPECTED, Collection Agustin & Isabel Coppel: Katzen Art Center, American University Washington D.C., USA Quinquenio, Galería Nueveochenta. Bogotá COLOMBIA Prorroga Recuperada, Museo Xteresa Arte Actual. México D.F., MEXICO
2007 Triangle DUMBO Arts Exhibition, Triangle Arts Association. Brooklyn New York, USA Virus Sonoro, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros INBA. Mexico City, MEXICO Crearte Urbano, Complejo Cultural El Aguila. Madrid, SPAIN Habitantes Incómodos, Public space interventions. Mexico City, MEXICO Basura Seleccionada, Antiguo Casino Metropolitano. Mexico City, MEXICO Sculpture group show, Diaz Contemporary Gallery. Toronto, CANADA
2011 NOW, Fundación La colección JUMEX. Mexico, MEXICO Salons de Lecture, La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, FRANCE MEXICO: EXPECTED/UNEXPECTED, Collection Agustin & Isabel Coppel: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, USA Non Corpus Mentis, Galería Jesus Gallardo, León México, MEXICO Transurbaniac, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo MUAC UNAM. México, MEXICO AKASO, Museo Universitario del Chopo. UNAM, México D.F., MEXICO VOX POPULI, Casa Vecina, México D.F., MEXICO
2006 Esquiador en el fondo de un pozo, La Colección JUMEX. Mexico City, MEXICO LIMBO, Museo Carrillo Gil INBA. México D.F., MEXICO In Sensu Cosmico, RIM project El Atrio. Mexico City, MEXICO Come Closer, Espace piano nobile. Geneve, SWITZERLAND Balastras, Galería La Refaccionaría. Mexico City, MEXICO Relativo, MUCA ROMA UNAM. Mexico City, MEXICO Un minuto por favor..., Casa Taller José Clemente Orozco. Guadalajara, MÉXICO
2010 Cimbra, Museo de Arte Moderno Mexico City, MEXICO Transurbaniac, University of California San Diego USA Shifting Constructs, - Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation Periferico Carcas | Arte Contemporáneo. Caracas, VENEZUELA Three Years, Mitterrand+Sanz Gallery. Zurich, SWITZERLAND FOR NOW, THE DRAKE HOTEL, Toronto, CANADA Constante. La Nueva Babilonia, Zapopan Museo de Arte MAZ, Zapopan Jalisco, MEXICO Non Corpus Mentis, Centro Cultural Border. México D.F., MEXICO MEXICO: EXPECTED / UNEXPECTED, BPS22 Espace de Création Contemporaine, BELGIUM
2005 Declaraciones, Contemporary video from Mexico. ARCO. Reina Sofia National Arts Museum. Madrid, SPAIN Come Closer, Künstlerhaus Bethanien. Berlín, GERMANY 9th Video/Arte/Electrónica International Festival (VAE9), PERU Mexico 70', Casa del Lago UNAM, Bosque de Chapultepeq. Mexico City, MEXICO 2004 Escalera al cielo, Contemporary video program. MACO. Mexico City, MEXICO Biopsia, Central Gallery of National Arts Center CAN INBA. Mexico City, MEXICO Puntos de Colision, Sound interventions, National Arts Center CNA INBA, Mexico City, MEXICO Bienal de Musica Electroacustica Sismo04, Sala Nezahualcoyotl UNAM. Mexico City, MEXICO
2009 Shifting Constructs. Grants & Commissions exhibition. The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO). Miami, USA MEXICO: EXPECTED/UNEXPECTED, Collection Agustin & Isabel Coppel: TEA Tenerife Space for the Arts, Tenerife, SPAIN MEXICO: EXPECTED/UNEXPECTED, Current Alliances in Art Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, NETHERLANDS
2003 Repertorio Sistematico de Consulta Rapida, Galería CANAIA. Mexico City, MEXICO Mutek, Sound art Festival. Museo Tamayo and El Claustro de Sor Juana. Mexico City, MEXICO Sound Image, Museo Laboratorio Arte Alameda INBA. Mexico City, MEXICO e-M@xico, Museo Tamayo INBA. Mexico City, MEXICO Pasajes, Museo Tamayo INBA. Mexico City, MEXICO Still Life – Naturaleza Muerta, Carrillo Gil Museum. Mexico City, MEXICO Tiempo Presente, Art & Idea Gallery. Mexico City, MEXICO Ciencias Ficticias?, Xteresa Arte Actual Museo INBA. Mexico City, MEXICO
2008 Narrative / Non-Narrative, The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO). Miami, USA MEXICO: EXPECTED/UNEXPECTED, Maison Rouge, Paris, FRANCE XIV Bienal Rufino Tamayo, Museo Tamayo. Mexico City, MEXICO Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco, UNAM México D.F., MEXICO Fragmentación, Theo Notaras Multicultural Centre. Camberra, AUSTRALIA International Art Festival JakArt, Jakarta, INDONESIA The fine Line, Museo de las Americas. Denver, USA
2002 Festival L.A. Freewaves, Los Angeles, USA Festival Lascas New Mexican Art, Quebec, CANADA Generacion XYZ, Gallery Unit 1408 / Fitzroy Terrace. Toronto, CANADA Neti::Neti, Salon Mexico, Mexican Institute - Spain Embassy. Madrid, SPAIN Inmediato, Centro Cultural Ollin Yoliztli. Mexico City, MEXICO Mexartfest, MEXICO, JAPAN, KOREA 4as, Jornadas De Nivelacion Del Oxigeno. Museo Xteresa Arte Actual. Mexico City, MEXICO Luz y Fuerza, Video show. Espacio Negro Gallery, CNA INBA. Mexico City, MEXICO 2001 Domestica – Toño, Casa De La Cultura Antonio Rodriguez Gallery. Mexico City, MEXICO
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1999 Infancias Botanicas, Viveros De Coyoacan. Mexico City, MEXICO International Biennal of Photography 99, Centro de la Imagen CONACULTA. Mexico City, MEXICO
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Visual Rythm, 2012 Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado, USA
Visual Rythm, 2012 Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado, USA
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Mexico:Expected/Unexpected, Muro Falso, 2008 Maison Rouge, Paris, FRANCE
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Visual Rythm, 2012 Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado, USA
Mexico: Expected/Unexpected, Muro Abierto, 2012 Isabel & Agustin Coppel Collection, Katzen Art Center, Washington D.C., USA
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Cimbra, 2010 Museo de Arte Moderno, MĂŠxico City, MEXICO ArtBasel Miami, Trabajo Mural, 2007
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Patrones de Trabajo, 2009
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Area de Trabajo, 2008 Casa de Las Monas, Le贸n Gto, MEXICO
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SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
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Open Works, Vicky David Gallery, New York, USA Principios de Afirmación. Galería Espacio Mínimo, Madrid SPAIN Cumulative Act Effect, MULTIPLESPACINGS, PROGR Zentrum fur Kulturproduction, Bern, SWITZERLAND
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Hacia una arquitectura posible, CENTRAL Art Projects, México City, MEXICO
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Espacios de Concentración. Galería Enrique Guerrero, México City, MEXICO Making Evidence, Mitterrand+Sanz Gallery, Zurich, SWITZERLAND. Making Evidence, JGM Galérie, Paris, FRANCE Formulating Experience, Diaz Contemporary Gallery, Toronto, CANADA Materia Oscura, Galería Nueveochenta, Bogotá, COLOMBIA La Suite Bollard, Galería Nueveochenta, Bogotá, COLOMBIA
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Prácticas De Operación, Galería Nueveochenta, Bogotá, COLOMBIA
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Zona en Construcción, Museo Experimental El Eco UNAM, México City, MEXICO Open Window, Diaz Contemporary Gallery, Toronto, CANADA Trabajo Diario, VOLTA NY, USA Rupestre, FIAC2008, Leon Mexico.
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Bitácora, Galería Enrique Guerrero, México City, MEXICO Mentalities for a flat space. ALDABA arte. México City, MEXICO
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Measurements and Process, Diaz Contemporary Gallery. Toronto, CANADA Area de Trabajo, Galería La Refaccionaria, México City, MEXICO Caja de Herramientas, Galería La Estación, Chihuahua Mexico, MEXICO Trabajo de Ampliación, Casa Vecina, México City, MEXICO
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Calle del 57. Galería EL Particular. México City, MEXICO
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Inmerso Foro Sonoro, Museo Tamayo INBA. México City, MEXICO
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Orbitalidad, Rotacion XVII. MUCA ROMA UNAM, México City, MEXICO Antibiotico Net art proyect. Centro de la Imagen CONACULTA. México City, MEXICO
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Sentido Contrario. Galería La Esmeralda. National Arts Center INBA. México City, MEXICO
Installation view Practicas de Afirmación, 2012 Madrid, SPAIN
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Private Collection Geneva, SWITZERLAND Modified drywall with wood and metal structure
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Manual «Ventana Abierta» Modified drywall with wood and metal structure. Private Collection Geneva, SWITZERLAND
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Installation view Open Window, 2008 Toronto, CANADA
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Ventana abierta, modified drywall with wood and metal structure, 2008 Toronto, CANADA
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Installation view Practicas de afirmaci贸n, 2012 Madrid, SPAIN
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Installation view, Modified MDF construction Espacio de concentraci贸n, 2010 Paris, FRANCE
Installation view, modified drywall with wood and metal structure. Practicas de operaci贸n, 2009 Bogota, COLOMBIA
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Installation view Espacio de concentraci贸n, 2010 Paris, FRANCE
Espacio de concentraci贸n, 2010 JGM Gallery, Paris, FRANCE
Installation view, Modified drywall installation Cumulative Act Effect, 2012 Bern, SWITZERLAND
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AWARDS
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
2010 La Colección JUMEX, México D.F. Production grant, MEXICO 2009 Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation CIFO production grant, Miami, USA 2008 Artist Pension Trust, New York, USA XIV Bienal Rufino Tamayo, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, MEXICO 2007 Bienal FEMSA 2007. Monterrey México, MEXICO 2006 National System of Creators Grant (SNC), FONCA., Mexico City, MEXICO Triangle Art Trust Artist's Workshop - New York, New York, USA Drake International Artist Residency Program, Toronto, CANADA Sociedad de Valores de Arte Mexicano SIVAM Artes Visuales Premio 2006, Mexico City, MEXICO La Colección JUMEX, México D.F. Production grant, MEXICO SIVAM Artes Visuales premio 2006, Mexico City, MEXICO 2005 Triangle Art Trust - KM.0 URBANO Art Residency, Santa Cruz, BOLIVIA FONCA Grant, Special Projects Grant, Mexico City, MEXICO PROG:ME 2005 Art Festival, Rio de Janeiro, BRASIL 2003 Videobrasil 2003 Art Festival, Multimedia, Sao Paulo, BRASIL 2002 Transmedia Art Festival, 15 Seconds Of Fame, Toronto, CANADA File 2002 Art Festival, Honorific Mention, Sao Paulo, BRASIL FONCA Grant Jóvenes Creadores - Multimedia, FONCA, Mexico City, MEXICO Yucatán Fine Arts Biennal, Video and Instalation, Mérida, Yucatán, MEXICO 1st Electronic Arts Festival, Villa de Móstoles, Móstoles, Madrid, SPAIN Vidarte 2002 Art Festival, Multimedia, Mexico City, MEXICO 2001 Videolisboa 2001 Art Festival, Lisboa, PORTUGAL SIART 2001 International Fine Arts Award, Installation, La Paz, BOLIVIA Omnilife Award, Honorific Mention, Installation,Guadalajara, MEXICO
Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation CIFO, Miami, USA Bank of America, New York, USA Manja Collection, Geneve, SWITZERLAND MUAC Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo UNAM, Mexico City, MEXICO Isabel & Agustin Coppel Collection, Mexico City, MEXICO The JUMEX Collection, México City, MEXICO César Gaviria Collection, Bogotá, COLOMBIA Museo Laboratorio de Arte Alameda, México City, MEXICO Fondation Daniel Langlois, Quebec, CANADA Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santa Cruz, BOLIVIA Lacoste, Paris, FRANCE Colección Meana-Larrucea, SPAIN Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango - Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, Santafé de Bogota, COLOMBIA
2000 Multimedia Projects Grant, Centro Multimedia, National Arts Center CNA, Mexico City, MEXICO 1999 International Biennal of Photography 99, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, MEXICO
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WORK IN PROCESS
Ricardo Rend贸n working. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado, USA
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«I find the execution of the work as the space of the deepest personal reflection, an instant of concentration. Hence the need to extend such moment of performance in time and space. To devastate the total surface of a wall, to engrave a board of conglomerate wood, to perforate a sheet of newspaper during one month of work or to manipulate a found object. It is an immediate resource that allows me to mark and reveal, step by step, each moment and every fact in the process of creation.» Ricardo Rendón
Katsen Art Center, Washington D.C., USA
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Artist’s studio México City, MEXICO
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STUDIO
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SELECTED WORKS
Every piece is unique and comes with an installation manual explaining how the artwork is hanged and for the single works, the different ways to hang it.
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TRABAJO ACUMULADO 2010 70 x 460 x H240 cm (108.5 x 200 cm each) 27 5/9 x 181 2/9 x H94 8/9 in (42 5/7 x 78 3/4 in each) PERFORATED INDUSTRIAL FELT AND METAL 5 PIECES
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AFIRMACION III 2011 280 x H215 cm (130 x 154 cm each) 110 1/3 X H84 8/9 in (51 2/9 x 60 9/14 in each) PERFORATED INDUSTRIAL FELT AND METAL 3 PIECES
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PATRON DE OBRA 2012 380 x H240 cm 149 2/3 x 94 5/9 in PERFORATED INDUSTRIAL FELT AND METAL 10 PIECES
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AREA DE TRABAJO 2012 200 x 115 cm (EXTENDED) 78 3/4 x 45 1/3 in (EXTENDED) PERFORATED INDUSTRIAL FELT AND METAL
Area de trabajo (multiple)
Installation Manual
modified industrial felt and iron grommits 200 x 115cm extended RICARDO RENDON 2012
SCREW
SCREW
240 cm
170 cm
FELT CONFETTI
65 cm
105 cm
170 cm
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AREA DE CORTE 2011 203 x 197 cm (EXTENDED) 80 x 77 9/14 in (EXTENDED) PERFORATED INDUSTRIAL FELT AND METAL
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AREA DE CORTE 2012 160 x H215 cm 63 x 84 2/3 in PERFORATED INDUSTRIAL FELT AND METAL
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AREA DE TRABAJO 2012 210 x H210 cm 82 7/9 x 82 7/9 in PERFORATED INDUSTRIAL FELT AND METAL
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CONCENTRACIÓN PENDIENTE 2011 200 x 108.5 cm each x H3.50 cm 78 3/4 x 42 5/7 x 137 7/8 in PERFORATED INDUSTRIAL FELT AND METAL 4 PIECES
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ESPACIOS DE CONCENTRACIÓN 1 2010 460 x 70 x H225 cm 181 2/9 x 27 5/9 x H2/3 in MODIFIED INDUSTRIAL FELT AND METAL 4 PIECES Trabajo Acumulado
Installation Manual
perforated industrial felt and metal 460 x 70 x H240 cm high, 4 pieces (200 x 108.5 cm each), 2010 RICARDO RENDON 2010
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110cm
70cm
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205cm
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FELT CONFETTI ON FLOOR
470 cm
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PATRONES DE CONCENTRACIÓN 2012 32 x H165 cm 12 9/14 x H65 in PERFORATED INDUSTRIAL FELT AND METAL
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PATRONES DE CONCENTRACIÓN 2012 40 x H180 cm 15 7/9 x 71 in PERFORATED INDUSTRIAL FELT AND METAL
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PATRONES DE CONCENTRACIÓN 2012 120 x 40 x H195 cm 47 1/3 x 15 7/9 x H66 1/4 in PERFORATED INDUSTRIAL FELT AND METAL
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DOBLE PROBLEMA 2012 300 x 60 x H240 cm 118 1/4 X 23 2/3 X H94 5/9 in PERFORATED INDUSTRIAL FELT AND METAL
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DOS ESTADOS 2012 154 x 180 cm each 60 9/14 x 70 8/9 in each PERFORATED INDUSTRIAL FELT AND METAL 2 PIECES
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DOS ESTADOS 2012 154 x 180 cm each 60 9/14 x 70 8/9 in each PERFORATED INDUSTRIAL FELT AND METAL 2 PIECES
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DOBLE ACCION 2011 153.5 x 137.5 cm each 60 1/2 x 54 1/7 in each PERFORATED INDUSTRIAL FELT AND METAL 2 PIECES
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TRABAJO ACUMULADO (FIELTRO EXTENDIDO) 2010 338 x H109 cm 133 1/7 x H 43 MODIFIED FELT AND METAL 20 PIECES
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AREA DE TRABAJO 2012 125 x 160 cm 49 2/9 x 63 in PERFORATED INDUSTRIAL FELT AND METAL
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AREA DE TRABAJO 2012 154 x 160 cm 60 9/14 x 63 in PERFORATED INDUSTRIAL FELT AND METAL
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AREA DE TRABAJO 2012 190 x 65 x H220 cm 74 8/9 x 25 5/9 x 86 2/3 in PERFORATED INDUSTRIAL FELT AND METAL
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VENTANA ABIERTA 2012 Variable dimensions PERFORATED BLINDS, FIBERGLASS AND METAL
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PATRONES SOBREPUESTOS 2010 240 x 400 cm 94 5/9 x 157 5/8 in PERFORATED INDUSTRIAL FELT 20 PIECES
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PATRONES DE TRABAJO 2010 Variable dimensions MODIFIED INDUSTRIAL FELT AND METAL 9 PIECES
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MATERIA PENDIENTE 2010 310 x 110 x 110 cm 122 1/9 x 43 1/3 x 43 1/3 in PERFORATED INDUSTRIAL FELT AND METAL
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MATERIAL DE RECORTE 2011 380 x 40 x H220 cm 149 2/3 x 15 7/9 x H86 2/3 in MODIFIED INDUSTRIAL FELT AND METAL 16 PIECES
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AREA DE TRABAJO 2010 140 x H150 cm each 55 1/9 x 59 1/8 in each MODIFIED INDUSTRIAL FELT AND METAL
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SPECIAL THANKS Ricardo RENDÓN John Paul CARMONA, Vicky David Gallery Jil BILLAUDEL, Vicky David Gallery Sixtine POIRIER, Vicky David Gallery J.S
Photo Credits: Studio Ricardo Rendón Vicky David Gallery