Bio

Jorge Yázpik, Mexican sculptor with monumental background, began his professional studies at the San Carlos National School of Plastic Arts in 1977. His work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums in Mexico and abroad, both individually and collectively. In 1980 he participated in the First International Biennial of Montevideo, Uruguay; and his work as been exhibited at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Montevideo; Gallery 9 of Lima; Museum of Modern Art of Colombia; House of Mexico in Paris; the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City, among others. He has carried out various interventions in public spaces in Mexico City such as the thirty-six benches located in the Historic Center, the piece of volcanic rock located at the entrance to the Faculty of Architecture on the UNAM Campus and the work composed of several concrete pieces located in the premises of the Postgraduate course in Industrial Design at UNAM.

“In over three decades of artistic creation, Jorge Yázpik has challenged many of the elements that have become hallmarks of abstract sculpture. With works that can present themselves on walls, tabletops or floors, in vertical or horizontal positions (depending on the whim of the artist or the exigencies of the space), and in public works that rest casually on the ground as if they were native to their setting, Yázpik’s trajectory has stitched the seam between geometric abstraction and post- minimalism. His works adapt to a versatile use of space and functionality while maintaining an essential individuality. In different scales, the benches constructed as public works for installation in Mexico City’s Centro Histórico and the rings he creates in wood, metal, crystal and semi-precious stones, annul the distance between viewer and object, work of art and furniture, personal adornment or Performative tool, becoming the “malleable objects”of contemporary post-conceptual art.”

 

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