Galería Hilario Galguera is pleased to announce the opening of their new space in Madrid with the exhibition A Dog with Eyes for the Blind by artist Peter Buggenhout. The exhibition will be Peter's first solo exhibition in Spain.
Hilario Galguera and Rosa María Ortega opened Galería Hilario Galguera in Mexico City in 2006 as a space for the discussion and promotion of contemporary Mexican and international art, with a solo show by Damien Hirst titled The Death of God. Towards a better understanding of life without God aboard the Ship of Fools. Since then we have exhibited the work of artists of different nationalities and generations characterised by relevant and complex conceptual, social, political and formal proposals, as well as by their aesthetic rigour and precision. The gallery focuses on presenting both public and institutional projects, two elements that are consider key to our contribution and connection with the public outside our exhibitions.
Peter Buggenhout (Dendermonde, Belgium, 1963) works with the intention of complexifying and deepening different ideas, achieving bodies of work that express vital aspects of contemporary existence such as decadence, overaccumulation, uncertainty, destruction and ignorance, amongst others. The titles refer coherently and precisely to the materials used, the construction processes and the formal results, sometimes establishing links and crossovers with history and/or literature. His pieces are made from found and discarded objects or elements, previously insignificant or unstable as dust, debris or blood, generating a density of inaccessible information, or accessible information but only gradually or in part.
The formal complexity of large-format structures and constructions, detached from any kind of representation, responds to an internal logic that is revealed through physical and direct interaction with the works in specific spaces. What appears as an overwhelming chaos, is in reality the result of a meticulous, long and methodical process, which starts from the abject towards the aesthetic experience. The compact sculptures, often in overwhelming sizes, are manifested as ruins or as the archaeology of the protagonist feeling of current western cultures, acting as a counterproposal to the current tendencies of fast and easy consumption.
Despite the brutality of the works, there is nostalgia and hope, evident simply because the act of making (art) implies an affirmation of life and a promise of resurgence. Both are suggestive in the title of the exhibition: A Dog with Eyes for the Blind, where ceasing to see does not end with blindness.
Buggenhout’s work is in the collections of museums such as MoMA, the Centre Pompidou and the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris, The Roberts Institute of Art and the Saatchi Gallery in London, The Margulies Collection and the Rubell Collection Family in Miami.
Peter Buggenhout has shown his work individually and collectively in institutions such as: MoMA PS1, New York; Palais De Tokyo, Centre Pompidou, Petit Palais and La Maison Rouge, Paris; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover; Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany; Herzliya Biennial 2011, Israel; La Biennale di Venezia 2009, Venice; Kunstraum Dornbirn, Austria; De Pont Foundation, Tilburg, The Netherlands; Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia; M Museum, Louvain, Belgium; Museo Espacio, Aguascalientes, Mexico, among others. In 2022 he participates in a group exhibition curated by Nicolas Bourriaud during the Venice Biennale and at the Lyon Biennale.
This exhibition is accompanied by a text by Alfredo Félix-Díaz and will open to the public from 7th September to 5th November of this year.
Press release courtesy Galeria Hilario Galguera.
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