Lisson Gallery is pleased to return to Mexico City for the gallery's fourth year of participation in Zona Maco. The booth will feature a number of gallery artists, including Ai Weiwei, Daniel Buren, James Casebere, Tony Cragg, Angela de la Cruz, Richard Deacon, Spencer Finch, Rodney Graham, Anish Kapoor, Lee Ufan, Jason Martin, Haroon Mirza, Julian Opie, Joyce Pensato, Laure Prouvost, Pedro Reyes, Leon Polk Smith, Jorinde Voigt and Stanley Whitney.
A highlight of the booth will be new work by Mexican artist Pedro Reyes, presenting new sculptures in his home city ahead of a major exhibition at Lisson Gallery London, opening this March. Succeeding his solo show at Lisson Gallery New York in 2017, the London gallery will present a series of new sculptures by the socio-political artist, alongside a new site-specific, two-metre high wall installation. Lisson Gallery's booth will also feature iconic work by Ai Weiwei, including his Han Dynasty porcelain coloured vases. Alongside this in the region, Ai Weiwei presents new work as part of Inoculation, the artist's first exhibition in Chile, part of the first itinerancy in Latin America of Weiwei's work, including several of his most emblematic works: iconic installations, sculptures, objects, photographs and videos.
Lisson Gallery will also debut Leon Polk Smith's work in Mexico at this year's fair, presenting the American painter's Constellation: Black Arrow (1972), a trio of vibrantly coloured painted shapes defined by a precise but irregular contour. This marks a key moment for Smith's legacy, as an extended trip to the country in 1940 inspired a great deal of the artist's early work. Raised in Oklahoma's Indian territory, he was already frequently including abstracted imagery representative of animals and landscapes in his work. Finding these figures in the local art during his trip, Mexico introduced him to the use of layered pigments, patterns and reductive geometry — a style which we could later settle upon to create his most significant series – the Constellations.
Further highlights from the booth include Stanley Whitney's Still the Wild West (2017), a vibrant composition of saturated colour fields, exploring the formal possibilities of colour within ever-shifting grids of multi-hued blocks and all-over fields of gestural marks and passages. Alongside this, Laure Prouvost will display a new work, Waiting for You (2017), a tapestry woven by the artist's grandmother in Flanders, Belgium. The work depicts the artist's naked torso laying on a white blanket by a window, holding a bunch of parsley - imagery that has appeared in earlier film works by the artist. A subtitled sentence of text at the bottom of the work reads, 'Waiting for You'; both a contemporary still life of sorts and acting as a lure for the audience through the combined use of imagery and text, Waiting for You directly implicates and incites the viewer into engagement.
Turner-Prize-winning artist Tony Cragg will also present Spring (2016), a vermillion sculpture created through a process of iteratively adding and manipulating layers cast into bronze. Complimenting this will be the calm composure of Spanish artist Angela de la Cruz's restrained oil and acrylic work on canvas Scar (2015) - the delicate incisions referencing Lucio Fontana's cut Spatial Concept series from the European post-war era. In contrast, exploding with colour and using digitally modified LED lights beams, the kinetic works of Spencer Finch (Kepler 186, 2017) and Haroon Mirza (Light Work xxvi, 2017) provide a unique visual register to the booth.
Further accompanying the selection will be Richard Deacon's stainless steel, wall-based Infinity work - previously presented in Lisson Gallery's major off-site London exhibition, Everything at Once in London - and Joyce Pensato's exuberant Crazy Good Donald (2017): a charcoal on paper work presenting a large-scale likeness of the Disney cartoon classic, Donald Duck.
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