Gonzalo lebrija biography

Widely celebrated in Mexico today, Gonzalo Lebrija was.
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Born in Mexico City and based in Guadalajara, Lebrija is one of the best-known contemporary artists living in the growing city and country.

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Selected Solo Exhibitions

2017

Gonzalo Lebrija: Unfolded Paintings, Travesia Cuatro, Guadalajara, Mexico, Guadalajara

Gonzalo Lebrija: Caída libre, Galerie Laurent Godin, France, Paris

2015

Gonzalo Lebrija: Unfolded, Galerie Laurent Godin, France, Paris

Gonzalo Lebrija, Travesia Cuatro, Madrid, Spain, Madrid

2013

Gonzalo Lebrija: Who Knows Where The Time Goes, Faggionato Fine Art, London, UK, London

2012

Gonzalo Lebrija : Trou Noir, Galerie Laurent Godin, France, Paris

2011

Gonzalo Lebrija, Museo de Arte Moderno de Ciudad de México, Mexico, Bosque de Chapultepec

2009

Gonzalo Lebrija, Daniel Hug, USA, Chinatown

Selected Group Exhibitions

2017

Chingaderas Sofisticadas, Kohn Gallery, USA, Los Angeles

Saber Acomodar: Art and Workshops of Jalisco 1915 - Now, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, USA, Downtown Denver

Wanderings, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Portugal, Lisbon

2016

¿Cómo te voy a Olvidar?, Galerie Perrotin, Paris (Turenne), France, 3e

Group Exhibition, Travesia Cuatro, Guadalajara, Mexico, Guadalajara

Atlas Sobre Papel, Páramo,

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Gonzalo Lebrija: History of Suspended Time (A monument for the impossible)

Gonzalo Lebrija’s History of Suspended Time (A monument for the impossible) is being presented in the lot across from our main campus. In this piece, a car appears to defy gravity and time as if hanging suspended over a pool of liquid approximately 40 feet in diameter.

It was originally created as a performance during which Lebrija hoisted a restored car above a lake with a crane and then dropped the car into the water while filming it with a high-speed camera. Lebrija’s camera caught the moment just before the car broke the lake’s surface. The artist subsequently recreated that image as a monumental installation in a parking lot at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver as part of the 2010 Biennial of the Americas. The car used in History of Suspended Time is a 1968 Chevy Malibu that weighs approximately 2,500 pounds.

Widely celebrated in Mexico today, Gonzalo Lebrija was born in Mexico City in 1972. His multi-media approach employs painting, photography, film, and sculpture, of

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Series of 15 b/w-prints
70 x 85 x 4 cm (each)

Who knows where the time goes, refers in its title to the Nina Simone song and documents a performance based on Lebrija's own act of shooting books. Through this action Lebrija intends to establish an intimate dialogue between specific existential concepts—the theory that values are primarily demonstrated in acts not words; that these acts, like ripples on the sea, are persistent. It also alludes to a possible suspension of time, and by default brings us back to reality—and to the actual impossibility of this notion. This is in contrast with the permanency of the ideas found in poetry and literature, through the chapters, paragraphs and sentences in books. The discourse is developed through the process of selecting the literature, and the subsequent sublime act of shooting the books. The installation is composed of thirty black and white photographs of these books, at the moment of impact by the bullet. The action behind each image remains the same, but the result always different, both poetic and violent. Alongside these photogra