Jose Dávila
Subtitle: pensar como una montaña = thinking like a mountain
By: textos : Amanda de la Garza [and 2 others] ; edición : Vanesa López García
Contributors: López García, Vanesa, editor; Garza, Amanda de la, writer of supplementary textual content; Museo Amparo (Puebla, Mexico)
Edition: Primera edición.
Publisher: Fundacián Amparo
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Puebla, México
Language: spa
Number of pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9786079862794
Subjects: Exhibitions; Installation (Art); Mexican Sculpture
Other titles: Thinking like a mountain; Pensar como una montaña
Work titles: Works
Description: Jose Dávila (Guadalajara, 1974) has developed a vast sculptural oeuvre regulated by a series of work propositions that explore the relationships between materials and objects, symbols and meanings, to produce new articulations between them. In the exhibition and project Pensar como una montaña (Thinking like a mountain), produced specically for Museo Amparo, Dávila starts with the question about the material and phenomenological quality of the stone, one of the original elements, not only in sculpture but also culturally. An element that arises from nature and is in nature; also used by human beings to erect its buildings, while in time it survives as a vestige. The research undertaken by the artist for this project, originates from a wide range of visual and historical references, as well as from a reaction on the production processes where the work in the Studio plays a central role to investigate and experiment.

Jose Dávila (Guadalajara, 1974) has developed a vast sculptural oeuvre regulated by a series of work propositions that explore the relationships between materials and objects, symbols and meanings, to produce new articulations between them. In the exhibition and project Pensar como una montaña (Thinking like a mountain), produced specically for Museo Amparo, Dávila starts with the question about the material and phenomenological quality of the stone, one of the original elements, not only in sculpture but also culturally. An element that arises from nature and is in nature; also used by human beings to erect its buildings, while in time it survives as a vestige. The research undertaken by the artist for this project, originates from a wide range of visual and historical references, as well as from a reaction on the production processes where the work in the Studio plays a central role to investigate and experiment.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibitions held at the Museo Amparo, Puebla, november 16, 2019 to march 16, 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In Spanish.
Table of contents: title: José Dávila: Pensar como una montaña / Amanda de la Garza; title: Historias de la piedra / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen; title: José Dávila o las tareas de la errancia.