Faux Marble
Edgar Cobián
7 Sep. – 5 Oct. 2024
Future Gallery is pleased to present Faux Marble an exhibition of paintings and video by Mexican artist Edgar Cobián.
Edgar Cobián is a multidisciplinary artist who works from different disciplines, and frequently pushing the boundaries of painting, drawing, installation, sculpture, video and performance. His work evokes forms of pop culture and art that seek to displace the Western references of art, specially painting and drawing, in order to dismantle the academic tradition and to question its heteropratiarchal white history. Deeply critical of contemporary societies, of the social and political struggles of the last century and of our understanding of the body, Cobian’s work vibrates between the experimental, a refined technique, and a certain dedication to an aesthetic closely related to pleasure. His perspective questions the articulation of art either in the political-economic system or in certain ethical and social frameworks, but he also rejoices in its hedonistic possibilities; for him, the impossibility of establishing a single rigid position or a single rigid morality demands more sensible, empathetic and free forms of thought. In this sense, Edgar Cobián’s recent work is situated in a broad approach to our different understandings of the body, from joy, its relationship with dance, its vulnerabilities and unfolded sensualities.
Edgar Cobián (b. 1978, Guadalajara, Mexico). He lives and works in Guadalajara, Mexico. He studied Visual Arts at the University of Guadalajara, was a Fellow of the Young Creators Program of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts, FONCA (2011-2012). Member of the Colectivo de Acción y Creación Artística (2001-2004) and the collective Gabinete Homo-Extraterrestre, GHE (2015-2016). His solo exhibitions include: Flujo aleatorio, Museo Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2024; génesis de nada, guadalajara90210, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2023; Perfumes, CAL, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2022; araña perro, in collaboration with Lucia Vidales, Karen Huber, Mexico City, Mexico, 2022; Hacer sombra, Cuadro22, Chur, Switzerland, 2019; OVERDRESSED, Páramo, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2019; Masaje transverso profundo, Impronta Casa Editora, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2019; Sed de Infinito from the program Doble at Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Mexico, 2017; among others. He has participated in multiple group exhibition projects internationally, among them: Kitchen Debate in collaboration with Rawson Projects, Regina Rex and Site95, New York, 2017; Fábulas sin moraleja, Casa del Lago, Mexico City, Mexico, Mexico, 2017); Destroy All Your Humanity, Gabinete Homo-Extraterrestre collective, The Mistake Room as HUB: Páramo, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, USA, 2016; La llamada del Dios Extraño #2, Museo de los Pintores Oaxaqueños (MUPO), Oaxaca, Mexico, 2015; Crisis Complex, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 2012; Manifestly Present, Kasteel Oud-Rekem, Liden, Belgium, 2012; Still Lifes, Diablo Rosso Gallery, Panama, Panama, 2012; La Quebradora, MCCLA, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2012; Alarma! , Death Be Kind Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, 2011; Everything Must Go, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, USA, 2011.
As a musician and performer he has developed the projects Peor Aún and Cráneo Verde Humeante.
