DIONNYS MATOS
ALEJANDRO JUSTIZ
ALEJANDRO JUSTIZ
A new series of 70 Download & Donate digital drawings and a short film.
OCCASIONAL LANDSCAPES
SAMUEL RIERA
We join the artist on a journey of discovery to a world where precise, multi-layered, dimensional paper collages, often cut from fashion magazines, spring to life as the thriving inhabitants of Planeta Sandra. She manages to blend the whimsical and the sensual, the threatening and the sublime as she recounts the mythological folklore of a primordial world not that far from our own.
With an explorer’s eye and a botanist’s discipline, Sandra meticulously catalogs each Sandremios by genus and species as specimens deserving of further study.
In these collages, I deconstruct everyday forms to create new narratives.
Through the use of nature, science and whimsy, I invent new landscapes and environments in a visual language that is uniquely my own.
-Sandra Cordero
As curator and philosopher, Luis Ramaggio, observes, “As any respected expeditionist, she quietly observes and classifies. As a visionary. As a hungry expert. As a mentalist. Lurking around her own self, and wandering through her habits and personality, Sandra discovers that she herself is a world.”
We join the artist on a journey of discovery to a world where precise, multi-layered, dimensional paper collages, often cut from fashion magazines, spring to life as the thriving inhabitants of Planeta Sandra. She manages to blend the whimsical and the sensual, the threatening and the sublime as she recounts the mythological folklore of a primordial world not that far from our own.
With an explorer’s eye and a botanist’s discipline, Sandra meticulously catalogs each Sandremios by genus and species as specimens deserving of further study.
In these collages, I deconstruct everyday forms to create new narratives.
Through the use of nature, science and whimsy, I invent new landscapes and environments in a visual language that is uniquely my own.
-Sandra Cordero
As curator and philosopher, Luis Ramaggio, observes, “As any respected expeditionist, she quietly observes and classifies. As a visionary. As a hungry expert. As a mentalist. Lurking around her own self, and wandering through her habits and personality, Sandra discovers that she herself is a world.”
AILEN MALETA
RIGO (JOSÉ RIGOBERTO RODRÍGUEZ CAMACHO)
VAGABUNDUS DREAMS
WELCOME TO THE EVERGLADES
WELCOME TO THE EVERGLADES
Please stop by to see our new window gallery featuring several new entries to the world of Planeta Sandra. In the colorful Vagabundus' minds we find their dreams are in black & white. These works, done in quarantine, are a marked departure from the visual jubilance of her previous work.
Exhibition on view from 02/03/2021 thru 02/14/2021.
ON VIEW: 05/12/21 – 06/27/2021
VIDEOS
ZONAMACO
MEXICO CITY, FEBRUARY 9–13, 2022
Baño de Bosque by Dionnys Matos
My begging bowl Accepts fallen leaves
Taneda Santoka
Baño de Bosque is the most recent series by multidisciplinary artist Dionnys Matos, developed between the last months of 2021 and January 2022. The work is a metaphorical celebration of ‘shinrin-yoku’ (or ‘forest bathing’), the Japanese immersive meditative practice of experiencing nature via the five senses, promoting mental, physical and spiritual healing through a balance between the natural and emotional worlds. The many benefits of this practice range from lower cortisol levels, pulse rate and blood pressure to increased feelings of happiness and creativity, as well as a boost to the immune system. Here the artist offers a visuality of his personal experience—elements of the natural environment imbued with the effects of his practice.
Fragments of landscapes appear on repurposed pieces of bubble wrap which Dionnys injects, almost obsessively, with acrylic in a ritual that is itself a meditative exercise between the artist and his work. These pieces are a stir- ring reminder of nature as a sanctuary. The artist transits from the contemplation of beauty and tranquility to the contemplation of chaos and catastrophe, and it is not a gentle metaphor, it is the weight of reality: one day we may wake up and beauty will only be the memory of what our natural world once was. His ecocritical work has turned his gaze, and in turn ours, to the complexities around life’s cycles of daily use, waste, and complicity and has found poetry therein. Dionnys and his work are young, but the roots of his urgent message are not: this is the world, the planet, we have, and we must know how to see it and care for it, now.
Still Life I, 2022
Acrylic Paint injected into Bubble Wrap
39” W x 55” H
