Infinity Truce, Huitzilin Ardiente (red)

rafa esparza

Infinity Truce, Huitzilin Ardiente (red), 201925.4 x 27.94 x 20.32cmSign in to view price
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Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This sculptural artwork features a striking red object, resembling a bandaged or wrapped form, mounted atop a wooden stick. The vibrant crimson color, combined with the irregular, twisted shape, creates a visually arresting composition. The artwork appears to employ found or repurposed materials, blending natural and industrial elements. The overall impression is one of fragility, vulnerability, and the interplay between the organic and the manufactured. The artist's intention may be to explore themes of protection, concealment, or the human condition, though the precise meaning remains open to interpretation. ...

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rafa esparza
Artist
rafa esparza
B.1981, American

rafa esparza (b. 1981, Los Angeles; lives and works in Los Angeles) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work reveals his interests in history, personal narratives, and kinship, his own relationship to colonization and the disrupted genealogies that it produces. esparza employs site-specificity, materiality, memory, and what he calls (non)documentation as primary tools to investigate and expose ideologies, power structures, and binary forms of identity that establish narratives, history, and social environments. esparza’s recent projects are grounded in laboring with land and adobe-making, a skill learned from his father, Ramón Esparza. In so doing, the artist invites Brown and Queer cultural producers to realize large-scale collective projects, gathering people together to build networks of support outside of traditional art spaces. ...

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Infinity Truce, Huitzilin Ardiente (red)
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Infinity Truce, Huitzilin Ardiente (red), 2019
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Commonwealth and Council
Gallery
Commonwealth and Council
Los Angeles, Mexico City

Commonwealth and Council is a gallery in Koreatown, Los Angeles founded in 2010. Our program is rooted in our commitment to explore how a community of artists can sustain our co-existence through generosity and hospitality. Commonwealth and Council celebrates our manifold identities and experiences through the shared dialogue of art—championing practices by women, queer, POC, and our ally artists to build counter-histories that reflect our individual and collective realities. ...

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