Guillermo SantamarinaColoquiaSeptemberSep 8th - OctoberOct 29th, 2011Gaga Mexico City

For his second solo show at GAGA, Guillermo Santamarina aims to embrace new ghosts from his habitual coupling with aesthetic structures that parade his surroundings both in his wake and sleep periods, tip-toeing on his personal obsessions and praising others – stubborn circumstances – that pullulate at the sensible contemporary disposals, like those of millions of individuals in urban reality.

The exhibition is created as an exercise of concurrency that digs into artistic plasticity and, in doing so, seeks to redeem and recode modern discursive cultural models, which assimilate imposed quota to the creative processes (such as a lover’s illusion or disenchantment) that result in visual diarrhea. Santamarina’s practice proposes to be constituted with some extent of coherence yet hardly allowing logical lines to be drawn from its serious abstract obstinacy, revealing and questioning perspectives of pulsating desires (perhaps unsatisfied), and holding itself as dramatic intentions of disguising addictions, wills and passions.

A group of encounters , fractions, coexistences, antinomies and absurdities that constitute a cosmos as an analytic situation, the resulting works of Santamarina’s exercise offer possible detachments and adoption of values; or games of double and triple nature with the assimilation of rules and statutes, similar to those found in models which oriented the undertakings of Bertolt Brecht, P.D. Ouspenski, Hima af Klint, A.S. Neill, Michel Foucault, Tadeusz Kantor, and Sun Ra, all paid homage to in this exhibition.