‘Rumores’Are Swirling Everyone’s talking about David Serrano’s latest work
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I share my work also hear rumors in their minds.” In an adjacent gallery is a new series of smaller paintings, drawings, and sculpture and yet another gallery holds works from past exhibitions. — Trey Speegle Through Nov. 30. La Cúpula, Calle 54 300, x 43 y 41@lacupulaMérida TOP LEFT, SERRANO ADMIRERS. ABOVE RIGHT: ARTISTS MONICA REZMAN AND JEFF COLSON. RIGHT, SERRANO WITH HIS LARGESCALE WORKS. LEFT, A CAGED SERRANO
PHOTOS: TREY SPEEGLE
OR HIS SIXTH exhibition at La Cúpula, artist David Serrano invited friends and admirers to share his “Rumores,” which is the name of his new exhibition. The main gallery consists of eight three-meter tall works arranged in a circle, all based on myths. Shahriar, center right, tells of the embittered Persian king who had his wife executed after finding that she had been unfaithful. Re-marrying every night, he continued to execute his new brides the following morning until he met Scheherazade, who enchanted him by telling a story that went on for 1,000 nights and ensuring her life to go on to continue the tale. “Within every detail of the eight characters are also [David’s] personal mythology,” Curator Leila Voight said. “Listening to rumors become rumors,” Serrano says. “The few people with whom
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