Urgencies #12
2012
Size
66 x 88.98 in
Year
2012
Medium
Paintings
Reference
ce9c217d
Acrylic on canvas
, Cuba
Mauricio Gonzalez creates paintings and sculptures as a response to the modern world around him. Gonzalez was born in Cuba and studied art in Miami, where the surrounding environment formed a lasting effect on his practice. Gonzalez's first sculptures used the housing crisis in Florida as a vehicle to comment on contemporary society and economics. Through basic construction methods, Gonzalez combined materials salvaged from foreclosed homes and construction sites for his fragile assemblages. Gonzalez continues to represent his world through the language of his sculptures and paintings, always with the desire to see his surroundings with new eyes and present these images in an new, objective way.
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Address
Milan, Corso di Porta Nuova 38
Cardi Gallery (originally ‘Galleria Cardi ‘) was founded in Milan, Italy in April 1972 by Renato Cardi to foster the work of those modern and contemporary Italian artists that he had started to presciently collect in the late 1960s. Renato built a distinguished collection that included artists like Cy Twombly, Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni and many others...
