Bosco Sodi and Christian Viveros-Fauné In Conversation

On the occasion of the exhibition Bosco Sodi: Solo Para Revivir, please join us for an evening of conversation with Bosco Sodi alongside curator and critic Christian Viveros-Fauné. 

October 5, 2023
  • 509 West 27th Street Thursday, October 5, 2023 6:30pm Doors; 7:00pm Start On the occasion of the exhibition Bosco Sodi:...
    Left: Bosco Sodi. Photo: Spencer Wells; Right: Christian Viveros-Fauné.

    509 West 27th Street
    Thursday, October 5, 2023
    6:30pm Doors; 7:00pm Start  

    On the occasion of the exhibition Bosco Sodi: Solo Para Revivir, please join us for an evening of conversation with Bosco Sodi alongside curator and critic Christian Viveros-Fauné. 

    Solo Para Revivir presents new works in an ambitious installation exploring the compelling material and conceptual relationships between the artist’s painting and sculpture. Sodi’s deepening investigations into the symbolic power of four elemental colors—black, purple, red, and green—are expressed in several large-scale mixed media paintings imbued with impressions of nature. 

    This event is at capacity. If you would like to be added to the waitlist, please email events@kasmingallery.com with your request. Kindly note that due to the enthusiastic response, attendance from the waitlist is not guaranteed.

  • Christian Viveros-Fauné (b. Santiago, Chile, 1965) has worked as a gallerist, art fair director, art critic, and curator since 1994. He was awarded Bucknell University’s Ekard Visiting Fellowship in 2023, the University of South Florida’s Kennedy Family Visiting Fellowship in 2018, a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Grant in 2009 and named Critic in Residence at the Bronx Museum in 2011. He co-founded The Brooklyn Rail in 1999, wrote art criticism for the Village Voice from 2008 to 2016, was the Art and Culture Critic for artnet news from 2016 to 2018, and has additionally served as Chief Critic for Artland and Sotheby’s in other words. He has lectured widely at institutions such as Yale University, Pratt Institute and Holland’s Gerrit Rietveld Academie, and curated exhibitions at leading museums in the U.S., Europe and Latin America. He currently serves as Curator-at-Large at the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, and is the Guest Curator of Converge 45—the Portland, OR, biennial of contemporary art. He is the author of several books. His most recent, Social Forms: A Short History of Political Art, was published by David Zwirner Books in 2019.

  • ABOUT THE ARTIST

    Bosco Sodi Bosco Sodi is known for his use of raw, natural materials to create large-scale textured paintings and objects....
    Bosco Sodi in residence at Palazzo Vendramin Grimani, Venice, Italy, 2022. Photo: Courtesy Studio Bosco Sodi.

    Bosco Sodi

    Bosco Sodi is known for his use of raw, natural materials to create large-scale textured paintings and objects. Sodi has discovered an emotive power within the essential simplicity of his materials and the vivid pigments he sources. He has described his creative process as a “controlled chaos” that makes “something that is completely un-repeatable.” Focusing on material exploration, the creative gesture, and the spiritual connection between the artist and his work, Sodi seeks to transcend conceptual barriers. His works become memories and relics symbolic of the artist’s conversation with the raw material that brought them into creation.

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