Máximo Flórez: “Anverso Reverso”

Casas Riegner Gallery is initiating this year’s exhibition program with the opening of “Anverso Reverso” (Obverse, Reverse) by Colombian artist Máximo Flórez. The exhibition will be on view until March 18, 2008.

Flórez’s “Anverso Reverso” is a compilation of artworks in different media that bring into focus the architectural space of Casas Riegner’s exhibition galleries, thus attempting to engage the spectator in an all-embracing aesthetic experience.

This new body of work which comes forth from the artist’s previous exhibition “Obra Negra” (Under Construction), originates from the idea of surrounding the architectural space. The project begins with a thorough study of the exhibition space followed by the production of models which are intervened to create moving images; these are then projected in the gallery space with the intent of granting the architecture a different character.

Unlike Flórez’s previous videos which bring to view the constructive process of the work through the use of a “skeleton” or supporting structure, in the new ones the artist manipulates and intervenes the architectural space in an attempt to intensify the spectator’s perception of it. In addition, Flórez will present small boxes or models that not only reference the videos but also heighten the “game” of superposition of scales.

Máximo Flórez was born in Bucaramanga (1979) and holds an architecture degree from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He has exhibited widely on a local level. Selected exhibitions include: “Nuevos nombres/ lugar no lugar, el espacio entre las cosas”, Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango Casa Republicana, Bogota (2005); XXXVIII Salón Nacional de Artistas, Claustro La Merced, Cartagena (2001) and IX Salón Regional de Artistas, Zona Centro-Oriente, Instituto Municipal de Cultura, Bucaramanga (2001).