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Solo exhibition · 2017

Empty Space

Wall works and objects in pigmented resin, wood, glass and aluminum: fragments of color suspended in frames, scattered across walls and set against bare ground. Lavoy described each piece as a calibration exercise — a frequency from the body, made visible.

VenueKendall Art Center (now MoCAA)
CityMiami, Florida
OpeningMay 26, 2017
CuratorGabriela García Azcuy
Works13 works and series
MediaPigmented resin, wood, glass, aluminum, oil
Thoughts, 2017: pigmented resin, wood and metal shapes installed across a white wall at Kendall Art Center
Thoughts, 2017. Pigmented resin, wood and metal, variable dimensions. Installation view, Kendall Art Center, Miami
Exhibition text

Calibration exercises

“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.”

— Democritus

English

All the pieces in Empty Space are frequencies emitted by my body, dictated by the subconscious mind. These are calibration exercises. The final result is a wave — the piece — which, emitted towards dark matter, will travel the universe until it returns to me again.

Español

Todas las piezas en Empty Space son frecuencias emitidas por mi cuerpo, dictadas por la mente subconsciente. Son ejercicios de calibración. El resultado final es una onda — la pieza — la cual, emitida a la materia oscura, transitará el universo hasta regresar a mí nuevamente.

— Jorge Lavoy

Installation

In the gallery

Empty Space title wall with exhibition text and three large wall works
Title wall and exhibition text
Gallery view with framed resin works and wall pieces
Gallery view
Figure (Figura), 2017: three frames, each holding a single pigmented resin fragment
Figure (Figura), 2017. Pigmented resin, acrylic, glass and foam, 19 × 19 in each
Detail of Thoughts, orange pigmented resin shape with aluminum edge
Thoughts, 2017 (detail)
Long wall of small framed works in a horizontal line
Installation view
Matrix, 2017: framed panel of blue pigmented resin and black lines over a drywall-tape grid
Matrix, 2017. Wood, pigmented resin, oil painting and drywall tape, 36 × 52 in
Press

Coverage

“Tan modélico y metabolizado se muestra todo ese amplio acervo en las piezas que fueron seleccionadas para la curaduría de su última exposición Empty Space […] que no puedo dejar de pensar en un paralelismo con algunas obras emblemáticas del artista Marcel Duchamp.”

— David Mateo, La obra como entropía, 2017

Checklist

Works in the exhibition

TitleYearMediumDimensions
Thoughts2017Pigmented resin, wood and metalVariable dimensions
Figure (Figura)2017Pigmented resin, acrylic, glass and foam19 × 19 in each
Focus2016–2017Glass, resin, pigmented resin and fish hooks8 × 10 in each
Matrix2017Wood, pigmented resin, oil painting and drywall tape36 × 52 in
Paradigms Control2017Plywood, latex and pigmented resin55 × 39½ in
Awareness State Graph2017Wood, metal, acrylic and pigmented resin12 × 48 in
Fractal2017Wood, oil painting and pigmented resin60 × 60 in
Idea-defragmentation 12017Pigmented resin and aluminum30 × 20 in
Idea-defragmentation 22017Pigmented resin and aluminum30 × 13½ in
Untitled2017Plywood, permanent marker ink, latex and pigmented resin55 × 39½ in
Untitled2017Plywood, oil painting, permanent marker ink and pigmented resin55 × 39½ in
Untitled2017Plywood, oil painting, permanent marker ink and pigmented resin55 × 39½ in
Untitled2017Wood, pigmented resin and oil painting36 × 52 in
Invitation card for Empty Space, Kendall Art Center, May 26
Exhibition invitation

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