Galeria Carles Taché is delighted to announce the opening of Sahara, second solo show by artist Bosco Sodi (Mexico City, 1970) in the gallery space. The opening will take place next Thursday January 28th and the show will be held until the end of May.

Sodi, who is currently living in NYC, presents a series of works recently created in Barcelona. In fact, the artist constantly works in a delocalized way even having his main studio in Brooklyn. Furthermore, the employed materials on the creation of the works are usually those offered by each place. This gesture, minimal but significant, does not respond to practical neither logistical intentions but is, rather, the first of the pre-pictorial gestures of someone who feels a strong bond with the land and who works from that feeling. Sodi`s mixtures are kind of disembodied masses mainly based on pigments and organic materials such as woods.

From that point, the force that triggers Bosco Sodi`s artistic practice is probably the curiosity to experiment (first in a material sense) with the elements disposed on the surface of the canvas. In this initial phase of the process, one could say that artist interacts with the natural development of the reactive process of the mixture. The natural efficiency of the organic does not exactly exempt the artist from his participation but,

in some way, makes him become an observer. Obviously an involved observer who intuitively “conducts” a process that brings all sorts of reactions and accidents – opportunities, after all, for those who marvel themselves with the unpredictable and even take advantage of it-.

In the last years, Bosco Sodi has been working on monochrome. Works in the Sahara series are white monochrome. But saying that the works are simply white would be the same as saying that the sea is just blue. We mean, to be precise, that white is present in almost every one of its gradations, as works are full of volumes and textures that nuance the color. The geological appearance of Sodi`s artworks abducts with its infinity variations, it generates an attraction that invites us to contemplate and, hence, artist opens a path

to spiritual exercise. Bosco Sodi has individually exhibited in such institutions as The Bronx Museum (New York) or the IVAM (Valencia). His works are joining international collections such as Jumex Collection (Mexico). It is to be highlighted that he launched the Casa Wabi`s project in Puerto Escondido (Oaxaca), that promotes social, cultural and also artistic projects. Casa Wabi was designed by Japanese celebrated architect Tadao Ando.