📗 Libro en inglés GABRIEL DE LA MORA: LA PETITE MORT

La Petite Mort engages with the attraction of surfaces of De la Mora's works and looks beyond them to the unconscious drives and desires that have been a consistent theme in the artist's practice.

His meticulous process of collecting, cataloguing, and assembling fragments redefines the boundaries between drawing, painting, and sculpture.

De la Mora has achieved significant international acclaim and is exhibited in leading institutions worldwide, including The Drawing Center (New York), Museo Jumex (Mexico City), and Perrotin (Paris, New York), his work is held in major collections such as MOCA Los Angeles and the MFA Houston.

Accompanying the exhibition "Gabriel de la Mora: La Petite Mort" this edition includes an in depth reading of the artist& x02019;s work by the curator, Tobias Ostrander, accompanied by newly commissioned essays by art historian Maria Minera, and the writer and poet Pablo Soler Frost; each reflect on aspects of death, eroticism and transformation in De la Mora& x02019;s practice. This volume illustrates more than 80 works by the artist produced over the last 25 years. Numerous details show the precision and allure of his compositions which employ materials such as human hair, fragmen