MEDINA AND TAGLIAFICO TRACE INVISIBLE PATHS AT DURBAN SEGNINI GALLERY

Durban Segnini Gallery, in collaboration with Alonso Garcés Galería (Colombia), presents The Silent Paths, an exhibition bringing together works by Carlos Medina (Barquisimeto, Venezuela, 1953) and Pedro Tagliafico (Caracas, Venezuela, 1944–2020). Through August 7, 2026, at the gallery's Miami location, the show also commemorates fifty years of Medina's artistic career and his first exhibition with Galería Durban in Caracas in the 1980s.

The two practices converge in a sustained investigation of space, line, and the thresholds of perception, though they depart from distinct registers. Since the 1970s, Medina has worked around neutrinos — subatomic particles of almost no mass that pass through matter without leaving a trace — through drawings, sculptures, and installations. His Neutrinos series originated from photographic negatives by Venezuelan photographer Luis Brito: constellations of dark ellipses connected by thin, nearly imperceptible lines.

As curator Sean Nesselrode Moncada writes, Medina's work "does not reduce form; it clarifies the mechanics and potentialities of energy." His Spatial Drawings — metal rods bent into geometric shapes — occupy a middle ground between two and three dimensions, casting shifting shadows across the space. The most monumental works in the show, Cloud Fragment and Essential Rain Fragment, are composed of slender transparent acrylic rods that evoke the sensory presence of meteorological phenomena without representing them.

Tagliafico's practice, by contrast, unfolds as a meditation on the line as origin and horizon. Across five decades — 1970 to 2020 — his grids emerge, dissolve, and reappear through a measured, gestural process that, as curator Reinaldo Annicchiarico writes, moves "between minimalist aesthetics and geometric abstraction, between conceptualism and constructivism." The materials — fabric, plastic, wood — function not as mere supports but as constitutive elements of the work, bearing subtle chromatic shifts that register the passage of time.

Founded in Caracas in 1970 and based in Miami since 1994, Durban Segnini Gallery has specialized in the promotion of non-figurative practices linked to Latin American abstraction.

The Silent Paths is on view until August 7 at Durban Segnini Gallery, 3072 SW 38th Ave, Miami, United States.