Ruido Blanco (White Noise) by Gabriel de la Mora
in MACO of Oaxaca, Mexico
The Contemporary Art Museum of Oaxaca (MACO) exhibits Ruido Blanco (White Noise), by the Mexican artist Gabriel de la Mora (Colima, Mexico 1968), an exhibition curated by Kerstin Erdmann and co-organized by OMR Gallery, which includes more than 60 works from the last five years of production, in media ranging from drawing to sculpture.
Ruido Blanco (White Noise) is the result of an art exercise in which Gabriel de la Mora blurs the shape in order to take it to the most subtle level of existence. The denial of the figurative and the appearance of objects becomes, in a gradual process of abstraction, going closer and closer to the nature of white noise.
De la Mora studied architecture at the Anáhuacy University and a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in painting, photography and video in the Pratt Institute in New York. He made a working residence, in the School of Design and Fine Arts of Saint Etienne, (France, 2006), won several awards, among which are: First Prize of the Second International Contemporary Art Contest WTC (2006) and Acquisition Award in dimensional format in the VII Monterrey Biennial FEMSA (Monterrey, Mexico, 2005). In addition, he won Fulbright-García Robles along with Jacques and Natasha Gelman (2001-2003) scholarships, and First Prize at the Alfonso Michel Painting Biennial (1997). He has participated in fairs like Art Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach and The Armory Show in New York.
Gabriel De la Mora’s Ruido Blanco (White Noise) Vision by Kerstin Erdmann
At the beginning is the figure. In Ruido Blanco (White Noise) exhibition, Gabriel de la Mora (1968, Colima, Mexico) blurs the shape taking it to the more subtle and minimal degree of its initial existence: the image becomes blurred and slowly. Features, silhouettes, presentations that explore the ambiguity of figurative vanish, leaving only a trail of what they were. The work comes at the time of deletion, scrape or pull it out, in denial of what the expression initially was, is the reaffirmation of the waste.
Omnipresent is the white noise that gives the title to the exhibition: we perceive it as a residue of something that at one time represented the reality, but currently lacks a specific way. It acts as a random signal whose components bear no relationship to each other, it is impossible to compress and is independent of linear time processes. It can be watch on television in the form of "snow", or heard a sharp sound that is a combination of different sounds deaf.
The time and thoroughness are terms implicit in the work of the artist who, for example, wrote a thoughtful internal exercise for a day on paper, ideas and thoughts, and later delete them to leave no trace, only the rubber waste and graphite on paper: an empty, white noise. Therefore, the mystery forged around the image, suggesting he could be without revealing what it was.
De la Mora defines drawing as a set of points and lines that create the image of an idea or concept on paper. Experiment with the concept of drawing through non-traditional techniques: using human and synthetic hair creating three-dimensional designs ranging from drawing, sculpture and object art. Meticulously inserted hair after hair after, post-it after post-it, on white sheets; thousands of hair tied in a meditative and obsessive act, and plays with the random throwing pieces of acrylic scraping or foam beads to a sheet of paper, to set the outlines of a new work, thus altering the traditional line drawing in two dimensions.
In some cases, works derived from pornographic magazines or photographs, of psychic events in search of spirits, or interest in working with apocryphal works. The accident, hazard and process classification and objects play an important role in Gabriel de la Mora’s work. His ceaseless experimentation with material and form it has reflected in the exhibition, in the same way that the representation of reality that unexpectedly became in replace by a multitude of points or lines and frequency of sounds, originating in his white noise.
