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"Mexican artist Jose D\u00E1vila has become a sensation for his photographic cutouts of the world's most architecturally significant buildings. Now, in his new sculptural exhibition, \"State of Rest,\" currently on view at Mexico City's Galer\u00EDa OMR, he's pared down his focus to the fundamental building blocks of architecture. \"State of rest is a physical term that describes an object when all forces applied to it neutralize each other,\" explains D\u00E1vila, who has installed five roughly 1,000-pound rectangular slabs of marble and granite throughout the gallery's various rooms. The artist hung the rock formations using orange, red, and yellow commercial tie-down straps that suspend the stones at oblique angles, referencing Barnett Newman line paintings and Fred Sandback yarn sculptures. \"All the elements in the sculptures are working against each other all the time, against gravity, against the weight of the stones.\"\n\nPinterestFacebook*Allure (rojo y amarillo),* 2014\n\nYou might think of this conceit as the intersection between engineering and minimalism, or as D\u00E1vila sees it, \"a sublime observation of nature, like when you see big waves crashing on the shore. [Waves are] beautiful but menacing, because of their strength, just like these pieces of marble. [The sculptures are] quite menacing when you approach them, but you're attracted to them just like you're attracted to waves or a big, strong rain.\"\n\nPinterestFacebook*Zimbabue (amarillo),* 2014\n\nThrough March 22 at Galer\u00EDa OMR, Mexico City; galeriaomr.com\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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