An Unsellable Show During a Major Art Fair

<p>It would behoove most for-profit galleries to feature a sellable show to run concurrently with their local major art fair. At this year&rsquo;s nineteenth edition of Zona Maco in Mexico City, the prominent Polanco gallery Proyectos Monclova made the bold decision to instead display a highly unsellable installation by Michael Sailstorfer in its main ground floor exhibition space.</p> <p>Last year in the same gallery space during Zona Maco, Proyectos Monclova presented a solo exhibition of about fifty intimately sized, colorful, square wall-hanging works by Gabriel De La Mora titled,&nbsp;<em>Psicotropical</em>. Far from what one might imagine as traditional geometric abstract paintings or op-art, De La Mora&rsquo;s works on view were mosaics created out of exquisite organic materials, such as naturally iridescent butterfly wings and obsidian. They look like abstract paintings from a distance, but up close, reveal themselves to be technically intricate, perplexing conceptual art objects that, fortunately for the gallery, would look breathtaking in most living rooms.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@artifactoid/an-unsellable-show-during-a-major-art-fair-26ef0a04dffc"><strong>Visit Now</strong></a></p>
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