Nicolas CeccaldiViral FlooringAprilApr 17th - MayMay 31st, 2026Gaga Mexico City
Gaga presents “Viral Flooring”, Nicolas Ceccaldi’s new pastels. One of the two dominant motifs here are close-ups on feet cropped from famous paintings. This motif is repeated across the room and punctuated by another recurring motif, variations on the portrait of the same man, copied from a pastel by Rosalba Carriera. In the versions exhibited here, the sitter’s benevolent expression has been slightly intensified in order to achieve an equivocal effect. His enquiring gaze is directed at eye level, assumably towards the feet: Where are they headed to and who sets them in motion? Are those poses determined by muscle tension or by the floor’s properties? This raises vast and difficult questions on the topic of free will. Perhaps the foot poses depicted here are mere whirlpools forming and drifting across the surface of the endlessly complex stream of reality.
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Works
Aurora
2026
Pastel on museum board
40.16 x 31.1 inches
102 x 79 cm
Virgin of the Rocks III
2026
Pastel on museum board
40.16 x 31.1 inches
102 x 79 cm
The Birth of Venus II
2026
Pastel on museum board
40.16 x 31.1 inches
102 x 79 cm
The Birth of Venus I
2026
Pastel on museum board
40.16 x 31.1 inches
102 x 79 cm
Love and Psyche
2026
Pastel on museum board
Framed Dimensions:
37.4 x 34.45 x 1.57 inches
95 x 87.5 x 4 cm
The First Fruits of Earth Offered to Saturn
2026
Pastel on museum board
40.16 x 31.1 inches
102 x 79 cm
Consul Leblond I
2026
Pastel on museum board
40.16 x 31.1 inches
102 x 79 cm
Consul Leblond II
2026
Pastel on museum board
40.16 x 31.1 inches
102 x 79 cm
Roger Freeing Angelica
2026
Pastel on museum board
Framed Dimensions:
42.91 x 31.1 x .98 inches
109 x 79 x 2.5 cm
David the Shepherd
2026
Pastel on museum board
40.16 x 31.1 inches
102 x 79 cm
Consul Leblond III
2026
Pastel on museum board
40.16 x 31.1 inches
102 x 79 cm
The Creation of Adam
2026
Pastel on museum board
40.16 x 31.1 inches
102 x 79 cm
Consul Leblond IV
2026
Pastel on museum board
40.16 x 31.1 inches
102 x 79 cm
Bathsheba
2026
Pastel on museum board
40.16 x 31.1 inches
102 x 79 cm