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The Jack Tilton Gallery is pleased to present a new body of work by Mexico City based artist Eduardo Abaroa. This is his second solo show at the Jack Tilton Gallery. Both an artist and a writer, Abaroa has been a prominent figure in the art scene of Mexico since the 1990’s. He founded and worked in the artist-run space Temistocles 44, and he has exhibited in solo and group shows in Mexico, Los Angeles, New York, Argentina, Canada, and Germany.
“Allopathic Extreme” is a collection of mostly sculptural works that lack a central theme, yet still seems to generate a flimsy resonance of mock-topics like biotechnology, ornamentation, merchandise proliferation, imagined social and economic structures, everyday leisure, compulsion and need. A conscious effort has been made to avoid the illustration of specific arguments, favoring a grotesque or absurd state of indeterminacy.
Not Quite Green Almost Pig is the low-tech, handmade version of a high-tech 3-D image of a 6 mm pig embryo. The intention was not to represent this life form but to reenact the way such an image is constructed by means of layers. Variations from the model (mistakes) add interest to this sculpture which is the chimeric product of several disparate processes. A plastic human skeleton has been decorated with toy animals in Allopathic Extreme, a sort of deadpan interpretation of fairly recent findings in the field of biogenetic science with a baroque touch. Mini-market /Hyper-cube may be the pathological symptom of reading too many explanations of economic theories. This sculpture was achieved by internalizing and exploiting the vernacular genre of mini-pop. Idle Amulet was conceived while observing the strange and almost generalized presence of videogame machines in small drugstores while Desert of Tianguistelmex was inspired by the struggle for street territory in Mexico City between informal economy and huge corporate conglomerates. Abaroa conveys the interrelation of nationalistic, artistic and physical flows and contributes to the Mexican elite's freakish sense of taste.
