Provenance
Travesía Cuatro, Madrid
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2012
Exhibited
Jalisco, Museo de Arte Zapopan, Jose Davila: Praise to the shadow, 10 February-22 April 2012, n.p. (installation view illustrated)
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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Property from the Collection of Jimmy Belilty

Jose Dávila

Helix

acrylic on wood
diameter 49.9 cm (19 5/8 in.)
Executed in 2012.

Estimate
£7,000 - 10,000 ‡

Sold for £4,064

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