Eduardo Consuegra:

Lacunae

November 20, 2022—January 22, 2023

EDUARDO CONSUEGRA

LACUNAE

PRESS RELEASE:

Hernando’s Hideaway announces Lacunae the current exhibition of new photographic works and public sculpture by Colombian born, Los Angeles-based artist Eduardo Consuegra.In the garage gallery, ten framed prints taken on a Hasselblad medium format film camera of the interior of the house that holds the Hernando’s Hideaway space. The photographs document the artist’s own photo-realistic, monochromatic paintings intimately hung on the interior walls of the residence, coexisting with its objects, collections, and living spaces. In the front lawn, Consuegra’s new sculpture Poolside (2022) combines colorful ceramic tiles reminiscent of vintage bathroom into a whimsical swimming pool.

Over many years and a several visits, Consuegra and the curator/resident of Hernando's Hideaway, Gladys-Katherina Hernando developed an ongoing inquiry  surrounding the various subjects and history of modernism in relation to  its multiplicity of experiences. Their dialogues created a lacunae of sorts; finding a slippage in time, or its destruction, by its movement through intellectual space:

A building stands; it was photographed, printed as an image in a catalog; the image in  the catalog taken as a photograph on a mobile phone in the present; the photograph of the reproduction of the image of the place made into a painting; the painting of the photograph of the catalog of the reproduction of the subject, installed on the walls of a house, and again photographed with a film camera; that  film is printed, framed, and hangs in the garage turned art gallery of the same house.

In 2013 Consuegra began photographing image reproductions of midcentury architectural buildings in Latin America and of industrial design objects from the pages of anthological art catalogs,  subsequently becoming paintings of those classic modern motifs. Almost graphic in their rendering, Consuegra used appropriation strategies and re-photography to subjectively recompose the printed pages, displacing their original intention and sentiment by displacing the representation by multiplicity.  Though not visible to the viewing public, the interior of Hernando’s Hideaway is the outset of Consuegra’s project. The experience of the paintings and the private spaces of the residence remain inaccessible, fixed in their displacement.    

Consuegra’s photographs, half portrait, half still life, inquire into the lacunae, extending the partially public white cube gallery space of Hernando's Hideaway into the intimate and private interior spaces of the curator's home, creating a slippage in material strategies, another kind of provenance, exposing the deep and intricate social and cultural matter haunting the process of modernization as an unfinished project.

EDUARDO CONSUEGRA lives and works in Los Angeles. His solo exhibitions include: Endless revisions of what will be, Visitor’s Welcome Center, Los Angeles; Facsimile, Obra, Malmö, Sweden; Re-Present, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles; Specter, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles. Recent exhibitions include: The White Album, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles; Surface of Color, The Pit, Glendale; Two Fold, South of Sunset, Los Angeles; Perishable Fold, Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles; Black Rabbit, White Hole, Samuel Freeman Gallery, Los Angeles: Flicker, Control Room, Los Angeles; Banquet of the Jackal, Luckman Gallery; On Forgery: Is One Thing Better Than Another?, LAXART; and Second Nature: The Valentine/Adelman Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, among others.