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Mateo López | Make Do and Mend

03 September - 26 September 2020
Goodman Gallery, London

Goodman Gallery is pleased to present Make Do and Mend, an exhibition of new work by Mateo López – the acclaimed Colombian artist’s first London solo exhibition in a decade.

For the artist, the message ‘Make Do and Mend’ speaks to how “we must shrink for the future good: slow down, take care of each other, reflect on consumer practices. This message was commonly used during WWII – a period also defined by fear and control. Make Do and Mend speaks metaphorically to questions of transforming and mending ourselves and society”.

Make Do and Mend brings into focus López’s interest in art as a means of engaging with questions of repair, defined by his ongoing search to build and shape a different future – a process which unfolds into diverse references from Latin American art, architecture, design and education.

Artworks

Recycled cardboard, acrylic paint and grommet
Work: 73 x 65 x 6 cm
Recycled cardboard, acrylic paint and grommet
Work: 73 x 65 x 6 cm
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Recycled cardboard, acrylic paint and grommet
Work: 73 x 65 x 6 cm
Unavailable
Recycled cardboard, acrylic paint and grommet
Work: 73 x 65 x 6 cm
Unavailable
Recycled cardboard, acrylic paint and grommet
Work: 73 x 65 x 6 cm
Unavailable
Recycled cardboard, acrylic paint and grommet
Work: 73 x 65 x 6 cm
Recycled cardboard, acrylic paint and grommet
Work: 73 x 65 x 6 cm
Unavailable
Recycled cardboard, acrylic paint and grommet
Work: 73 x 65 x 6 cm
Unavailable
Recycled cardboard, acrylic paint and grommet
Work: 73 x 65 x 6 cm
Recycled cardboard, acrylic paint and grommet
Work: 73 x 65 x 6 cm
Curved panels, Yaré weave, wood
Work: 200 x 94 x 94 cm
Wood, turmeric & acrylic paint, varnish
Work: 74 x 50 x 50 cm
Wood, screws, suitcase (wood and linen)
Work: 262 x 167 x 114 cm
Wood, magnets
Work: 175 x 25 x 25 cm
Wood, metal posts and Achiote paint
Work: 90 x 90 cm
Cotton duck fabric and metal
Work: 118 x 116 x 58 cm
Lithograph, Paper Poem (Make Do and Mend), wood shelf
Work: 59.2 x 42.2 cm

About

Mateo López image

Mateo López

Mateo López (b. 1978, Bogotá, Colombia) lives and works between Bogotá and New York. He studied architecture for two years at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá before switching to Visual Arts at Bogotá’s Universidad de Los Andes.

López’s work engages with cartographies, journeys and con-struction processes while grappling with themes of chance, encounter and time. His practice traces a conceptual ap-proach, expanding from drawings to installations, architec-ture, films and sculptural choreography. Key international solo exhibitions include Sin Principio / Sin Final Museo de Arte Universidad Nacional, Bogota, Colombia (2018); Undo List, The Drawing Center, New York, USA (2017); A Weed is a Plant Out of Place, Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, Ireland (2016) and Deriva at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain (2009). Important group exhibitions include United States of Latin America, curated by Jens Hoffmann and Pab-lo León de la Barra at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, USA (2015); A Trip from Here to There, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (2013) and Ha sempre um copo de mar para um homem navegar, 29 Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (2010).

Major awards and residencies include the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. William Kentridge’s Protégé, Geneva Switzerland in 2012 and the Gasworks Residency Program, London, UK in 2010, which was followed by an exhibition.

López’s work can be found in public collections around the world, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; Banco de la Republica, Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia, Inhotim, Minas Gerais, Brazil and Museum of Mod-ern Art (MoMA), New York, NY.

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