Saul Sanchez
Saul Sánchez investigates the objects, concepts, and entities that are assumed to be inherent to the painterly process. His work alludes to the recurrence of already historicized theories and aesthetics since Suprematism; respectively, Sánchez develops his own visual language anchored on Constructivist dialects around form and surface. For example, in One After Another (2016), Sánchez restricts his material of analysis to linen canvases and his elements of composition to the straight line–opting for horizontal and vertical positions only. Reflecting on the influence that Concrete art’s appearance and concepts had on later manifestations of abstract art, including Op-art and Hard-Edge painting, Saul Sánchez utilizes the square, repeatedly, as a reference to the historical traditions he is addressing.
Sánchez has had solo exhibitions in Bogotá at Nueveochenta Arte Contemporaneo and Alliance Française, as well as internationally at Praxis in New York, Espacio Mínimo Gallery in Madrid, and Arróniz Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City, among others. His work has been included in group exhibitions at instiutions such as Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Dallas Museum of Art, Peana Projects in New York, Provintial Arts Center in Havana, Municipality of Kalamaria in Thessaloniki, Santral in Istanbul, and Diego Rivera House Museum in Guanajuato. …
Saul Sánchez investigates the objects, concepts, and entities that are assumed to be inherent to the painterly process. His work alludes to the recurrence of already historicized theories and aesthetics since Suprematism; respectively, Sánchez develops his own visual language anchored on Constructivist dialects around form and surface. For example, in One After Another (2016), Sánchez restricts his material of analysis to linen canvases and his elements of composition to the straight line–opting for horizontal and vertical positions only. Reflecting on the influence that Concrete art’s appearance and concepts had on later manifestations of abstract art, including Op-art and Hard-Edge painting, Saul Sánchez utilizes the square, repeatedly, as a reference to the historical traditions he is addressing.
Sánchez has had solo exhibitions in Bogotá at Nueveochenta Arte Contemporaneo and Alliance Française, as well as internationally at Praxis in New York, Espacio Mínimo Gallery in Madrid, and Arróniz Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City, among others. His work has been included in group exhibitions at instiutions such as Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Dallas Museum of Art, Peana Projects in New York, Provintial Arts Center in Havana, Municipality of Kalamaria in Thessaloniki, Santral in Istanbul, and Diego Rivera House Museum in Guanajuato.
Courtesy of Praxis
PAMM, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL
Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
Centro Colombo Americano de Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia
Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango - Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colombia
Praxis, Buenos Aires, Argentina