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Miler Lagos

Lagos

Nov 15 2018 - Feb 2 2019

Max Estrella is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in Spain of Colombian artist Miler Lagos (Bogotá, 1973), whose work is included in the collections of MUAC Museo de Arte de la Universidad Autónoma de México, Harvard University, the Banco de la República de Colombia, the Rubell Family Collection, and the CIFO Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, among others. His practice is rooted in dialogue and experimentation with materials, which serve as catalytic agents for the central themes in his artistic discourse.

Lagos is the result of a work process using watercolor paper and resin. Paper as medium plays a main role here, as in previous series (Time Rings, Foundations or Fragments of Time). Resulting from an industry that sacrifices 4,000 million trees every year, Miler Lagos’ discourse brings selfawareness on the conservation of the environment. This runs across his entire artistic practice. Through applying tension on paper, Miler Lagos creates sculptural spaces. These are geographic metaphors, abstractions that evoke mountain formations and lakes in Colombian Andean landscape. The artist’s hand replicates acting forces in nature, and develops an intimate dialogue with the medium. It is the artisan’s touch that makes the outcome unique. Miler Lagos reflects on the processes that transform matter, either caused by natural tensions or the industry. It is here where water serves the artist to stage the tension between expansion and containment. Tension between opposite force vectors affects a liquid and its container, and in Lagos results in the solidification of water represented by resin.

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