Jose Dávila - New Now New York Wednesday, September 30, 2020 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Artist Biography

    Jose Dávila

    Mexican • 1974

    Jose Dávila was born in Guadalajara, Mexico in 1974, where he still lives and works. Formally trained as an architect, Dávila creates assemblages, installations and photographic works that probe the transitory nature and spatial occupation of physical structures. He references artists and architects such as Donald Judd, Mathias Goeritz and Sol LeWitt in his works, reappropriating modernist architectural principles and addressing the failure of their utopian premise. His works, often constructed out of painted wood, found objects and plastics resembling quasi-functional structures, are at once critiques of and homages to twentieth-century avant-garde artists and architects. His style and vocabulary is born of a deep wealth of allusions and imagery, both artistic and architectural.

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Conjunto habitacional

ceramic, in 90 parts
installation dimensions variable
approximately 78 3/4 x 78 3/4 in. (200 x 200 cm)

Executed in 2000, this work is number 1 from an edition of 4 plus 2 artist's proofs and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

Estimate
$8,000 - 12,000 

Sold for $16,250

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Sam Mansour
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New Now

New York Auction 30 September 2020