Exhibitions
Beatriz Morales | Unbound
Date and place
Place: Praxis NY
Start Date: May 09 2024
End Date: July 06 2024
Description
Praxis is pleased to present Unbound, a solo exhibition by the Mexican artist Beatriz Morales curated by Esenija Bannan. The show will be open from Thursday, May 9 to Saturday, July 6, 2024.
The opening reception will be on Thursday, May 9, from 6 to 8 pm.
When focusing on Beatriz Morales‘ colorful paintings and textile art installations made from agave fibers, one returns -in a way- to the origins of her art: Her works are worlds of color influenced by her home country of Mexico, in which the viewer is literally pulled in and enveloped by softness and color. In her agave installations, Morales breaks with artistic conventions and attempts to explore new possibilities as an ambivalent medium between sculpture, architecture and textile art. Never conforming to one style, the exhibition Unbound gives us a glimpse of the range of works that the artist created for her first solo exhibition in New York: From abstract portraits to her stitched paintings surrounded by voluminous and soft installations made of agave fibres, using intense colors and breaking down naturalistic forms.
Curated by Esenija Bannan
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B. 1981, Mexico City.
Lives and works in Mexico City and Berlin.
Born and raised in Mexico City, Beatriz Morales left her native country in 2001 to pursue largely autodidactic studies in painting and fashion design in Europe. Morales combines an investigative, abstract-expressionist approach with textile art, fibre art and conceptual components, often realized in monumental installations. As part of her practice, the artist incorporates traditional, pre-hispanic dyeing techniques, both in her work with plant fibers as well as when painting on canvases.
Morales’ painting Wonderland II was presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art Rufino Tamayo Mexico City and Oaxaca as part of the Mexican Painting Biennial 2017. She
made her major art fair debut shown at Zona Maco in 2018, followed by multiple appearances at Dallas Art Fair, Zona Maco, Art Karlsruhe as well as exhibitions in numerous galleries across Europe and North America. Beatriz Morales’ recent exhibitions include a major solo exhibition at Circle Culture Berlin and two museum shows at the Chancellery Museum in Mexico City and the Museum of Contemporary Art MACAY in Merida (which dedicated its main exhibition hall to a large scale installation by the artist), and a participation in the major, high-profile group exhibition “The King is Dead, Long Live the Queen” at Frieder Burda Museum, Baden Baden, Germany. Upcoming exhibitions include solo exhibitions at Praxis Gallery New York (opening on May 9, 2024) and Kunstverein Dresden, an intervention of the iconic Edith Farnsworth House by Mies van der Rohe in Plano Illinois, USA and a duo exhibition at Circle Culture, Berlin. Upon invitation by Mexican top restauranteuse Gabriela Cámara (Contramar), Morales created a monumental 3 x 8 meter agave fiber mural for Cámara’s new restaurant Caracol de Mar in Mexico City.
Beatriz Morales published her first major monography “Color Archaeology” on Kerber Publishing in December 2021, available now in bookstores internationally.
Her paintings and installations are held in institutional and private collections in Mexico, Germany, Austria, the Groeninghe Collection Belgium, Switzerland, France, Canada and the USA, and were featured in numerous print and online publications. Beatriz Morales lives and works in Berlin and Hidalgo, Mexico.