Alma Allen: Nunca Solo, Book Launch
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Join Alma Allen, Museo Anahuacalli and Kasmin Books at Casa Bosques in Mexico City to celebrate the forthcoming publication Alma Allen: Nunca Solo. The event is free and open to all, taking place on Tuesday, July 11 from at 7–9pm. The event is sponsored by Casa Dragones tequila. Drinks will be served. Please RSVP to the event here.
The hardcover catalogue accompanies the artist’s exhibition at Diego Rivera’s iconic museum in Mexico City, amid its extensive Pre-Columbian collection. With translations in both English and Spanish, this volume delves into Allen’s ongoing engagement with time, form, and hybridity through twenty-six newly commissioned sculptures installed among the volcanic architecture and grounds of the museum.
The publication features over 70 illustrations alongside a long-form interview between the artist and exhibition curator Karla Niño de Rivera, a meditation on site-specificity by world-renowned architect Mauricio Rocha, and an essay surrounding the mythologies and ecological potentials shared across Rivera and Allen’s work by curator and critic Mimi Zeiger. To pre-order the publication click here.
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About the Artist
Photo by Diego FloresAlma Allen
Psychologically charged and compulsively expressive, Alma Allen’s works evoke a curiosity regarding the life of objects and the ways in which form and material can circumnavigate the utility of language. Known for his distillation of diverse organic references, the artist’s works simultaneously invite and resist classification.
Often realized in stone, wood, or bronze—materials hand-selected from quarries or foraged from landscapes in the area surrounding his studio—the works emit a mysterious and ineffable lifeforce. These abstracted, biomorphic shapes feel talismanic not only in their atmospheric qualities but also by way of their playfulness: bronze sculptures appear impossibly malleable, even liquid; wood and stone grain patterns are accented to highlight their material history. Whichever medium Allen chooses, the works’ final forms and their particular outcrops and eccentricities seem as though they have been conjured by the artist during their making, born of a wordless conversation between sculptor and object.
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