Jose Dávila: Physics of Uncertainty

  • COMA is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Mexican artist Jose Dávila (b.1974), titled, Physics of Uncertainty, on view Friday 11 April - 9 May. This is the artist's first solo presentation with the gallery and in Australia. 

     

    Jose Dávila positions industrial elements such as ratchet straps and concrete volumes, along with raw organic materials like unaltered boulders in such a way that they achieve a functional articulation. As a constructive hybrid, the sculpture merges stones, which are characterized as being one of the most basic and primitive construction elements, together with concrete volumes, a highly malleable modern material that can adopt any kind of geometric shape. For Dávila this contrast condenses the essence of construction and its constant transformation throughout history.

  • 'It came to me through a simple reflection, that gravity is one of the main forces for making matter circular'...

    "It came to me through a simple reflection, that gravity is one of the main forces for making matter circular"

     

    Jose Dávila has presented solo exhibitions at the Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, Switzerland; the Dallas Contemporary, Texas; the Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City; and the Museo del Novecento, Florence, amongst others. His work is in the permanent collection of numerous institutions including the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico City, Mexico; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil; the Perez Art Museum, Miami, Florida; the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, New York; the San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Hamburg Kunsthalle, Hamburg; the Zabludowicz Collection, London; and the Museum of Modern Art, Luxembourg. Dávila was the winner of the 2016 BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art’s New Annual Artists’ Award, the 2014 EFG ArtNexus Latin America Art Award, and has been the recipient of support from the Andy Warhol Foundation, a Kunstwerke residency in Berlin, and the National Grant for young artists by the Mexican Arts Council (FONCA) in 2000.

  • Jose Dávila
    The fact of constantly returning to the same point or situation, 2022
    28.3 x 35 x 3 cm 70 11 1/8 x 13 3/4 x 1 1/8 in
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