ZONA MACO 2022
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
Booth C100
Feb 9-13, 2022
La huella del hombre: Gustavo Acosta and Tony Vazquez-Figueroa
LnS Gallery is pleased to announce its participation in Zona Maco 2022, where we will present La huella del hombre (The Imprint of Man), a bilateral presentation of works by represented artists Gustavo Acosta and Tony Vazquez-Figueroa, showcasing the deeply personal investigations of each artist during the COVID-19 pandemic. While Acosta’s purely acrylic practice stands relative to Vazquez-Figueroa’s mixed media and multidisciplinary works, both artists converse on the lasting influence that their surrounding environment forced upon them during isolation. Both work on analyzing the symbolic and literal craters that the pandemic’s living conditions and long entrenched nature have created within their respective lives and communities.
For Acosta, the timely body of acrylic on canvas paintings featured in the presentation reflect the fragmented realities experienced throughout a unique moment in human history. He uses his iconic style of vibrant, profound imagery of urban settings, at times intervened by a human presence or besieged by unruly nature, in conjuring intense moods in a reflection of lived realities. Recognizable structures from the cities in which he has lived and visited: from Havana and Mexico City to Madrid, New York and Miami, become the concrete formations within each composition that read as both beautiful, and sometimes disturbing. Acosta describes his work as, “an investigation into the human condition, utilizing as testimony not the individual, but the individual’s creative footprint.” Inspired by everything from American realism, architecture, and action painting, his interpretation of architecture as an emblem of power explores the social and political aspects that buildings represent.
For Vazquez-Figueroa, the immersive collection of paintings, photography, and sculptures speak on the artist’s interpretation of the worldwide impact of the petroleum industry. With international training at the forefront of his process, Vazquez-Figueroa’s investigation into how oil-rich countries create unique physical environments, like oil refineries, and peculiar socio-economic and cultural environments led to the formation of Petropias, a term coined by the artist. The adapted Petropias, plays on the petrostate, revolving around the idea of holes, refineries, and containers that are revealed structurally and metaphorically through methodologies that are innovative and challenging exemplifications of craftsmanship, artistry, and science. In culmination, Vazquez-Figueroa declares, “I lived in a Petropia (Venezuela) and I learned to love it and understand it with its enormous defects and my enormous voids. I was ‘thrown into a world,’ into a Petropia, and found my way around it, escaping some of the terrible ideas that were imposed upon me.”
INSTALLATION VIEWS AND SELECTED WORKS
Gustavo Acosta
A Rusty Feeling, 2020
acrylic on canvas
72 x 60 inches
182.9 x 152.4 cm
Gustavo Acosta
Our Man in Boston, 2022
acrylic on canvas
54 x 54 inches
137.16 x 137.16 cm
Gustavo Acosta
Wonderland, 2021
acrylic on canvas
70 x 70 inches
177.8 x 177.8 cm
Gustavo Acosta
A Series of Unconnected Thoughts, 2020
mixed media on paper
12 x 12 inches each
30.5 x 30.5 cm each
Gustavo Acosta
Exploratory Walk I, 2021
acrylic on canvas
10 x 10 inches
25.4 x 25.4 cm
Gustavo Acosta
Exploratory Walk II, 2021
acrylic on canvas
10 x 10 inches
25.4 x 25.4 cm
Gustavo Acosta
Exploratory Walk III, 2021
acrylic on canvas
10 x 10 inches
25.4 x 25.4 cm
Gustavo Acosta
Exploratory Walk IV, 2021
acrylic on canvas
10 x 10 inches
25.4 x 25.4 cm
Gustavo Acosta
Exploratory Walk VI, 2021
acrylic on canvas
10 x 10 inches
25.4 x 25.4 cm
Gustavo Acosta
Exploratory Walk IV, 2021
acrylic on canvas
10 x 10 inches
25.4 x 25.4 cm
Tony Vazquez-Figueroa
Black Mirror Box Five Lines III, 2020
bitumen in plexiglass
45 x 37 inches
114.3 x 93.98 cm
Tony Vazquez-Figueroa
FVV_5, 2021
acrylic paint and polyurethane on canvas
8 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches
21.59 x 26.67 cm
Tony Vazquez-Figueroa
W/hole #9, 2021
acrylic paint and PETG plastic (thermoforming plastic)
12 1/2 x 12 inches
32 x 33 cm
Tony Vazquez-Figueroa
Black Mirror Painting / ReSurface II, 2021
acrylic, resin, and rubber on canvas
72 x 60 inches
182.88 x 152.4 cm
ZONA MACO
Mexico City, Mexico
February 9-13, 2022
Booth C100
Centro Citibanamex
Avenida del Conscripto 311, Lomas de Sotelo
Mexico City, Mexico
VIP Preview
Wednesday, February 9th from 11am to 5pm
VIP Access
Thursday, Feb 10th, 12pm-1pm
Friday, Feb 11th, 12pm-1pm
Saturday, Feb 12th, 12pm-1pm
Opening Hours
Wednesday, February 9th from 5pm to 9pm
Thursday, Feb 10th, 1pm-9pm
Friday, Feb 11th, 1pm-9pm
Saturday, Feb 12th, 1pm-9pm
Sunday, Feb 13th, 11am-7pm
Sunday, Feb 12th, 11am-6pm
