Jorge Yazpik

In over three decades of artistic creation, Mexican sculptor Jorge Yázpik has challenged many of the elements that have become hallmarks of abstract sculpture. With works that can present themselves on walls, tabletops or floors, in vertical or horizontal positions (depending on the whim of the artist or the exigencies of the space), and in public works that rest casually on the ground as if they were native to their setting, Yázpik's trajectory has stitched the seam between geometric abstraction and post- minimalism. His works adapt to a versatile use of space and functionality while maintaining an essential individuality. In different scales, the benches constructed as public works for installation in Mexico City's Centro Histórico and the rings he creates in wood, metal, crystal and semi-precious stones, annul the distance between viewer and object, work of art and furniture, personal adornment or Performative tool, becoming the "malleable objects"of contemporary post-conceptual art.
Mentored by Mexican Ruptura artist Manuel Felguérez, one of the pioneers of Mexican Geometrism, Yázpik also acknowledges the influential Mexican artists Gunther Gerzso and Vicente Rojo, while his treatment of negative spaces advances a discourse introduced by Basque sculptors Eduardo Chillida and Jorge Oteiza, Catalan sculptor Julio González and Uruguayan artists Joaquin Torres Garcia and Gonzalo Fonseca. Moreover, Yázpik revisits in a contemporary key the radiance and solemnity of Pre-Columbian sculpture, recovering a volumetric and spatial language whose expressive and conceptual vigor was hindered by centuries of Spanish Colonial rule, with the restriction of sculpture to religious representations.
Yázpik's work has been featured internationally in solo and collective exhibitions, including the Museo Soumaya, Museo de Arte Moderno, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Museo Diego Rivera (Anahuacalli), Casa Barragán, Casa Gilardi, México, the Museo de Arte Moderno in Cali, Colombia

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