Solo Exhibition: YESTERDAYS ADVANCE, Celaya Brothers Gallery, Mexico City
Augustine Kofie, Circulación Templo
165 x 170 cm / 64.9 x 66.9 in, 2014
Acrylic polymer and spray paint on heavy canvas.
Finished in semi gloss gel medium
Rotationship, 2014
On sight Installation, Various size.
Recycled wood (various), found paper,twine, nails,
plastic cassette tape & enamel paint.
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Celaya Brothers gallery Celaya Brothers gallery and ARTO are pleased to present:
Recent work by Augustine Kofie
Celaya Brothers Gallery
Zacatecas 194, Roma Norte,
Mexico City D.F.
(between Tonalá and Monterrey).
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Celaya Brothers Gallery (CBG) is a unique space that challenges the creative limits of the participating artists. A contemporary art gallery with a proactive offer that invites international artists to develop unique concepts and defy the parameters of their time. CBG is based on the Celaya brothers’ involvement in the artists’ process and their absolute support in the creative freedom for all of their artworks. This is what shapes the spaces of the gallery. Thus, CBG is involved in the artist’s professional development, guiding him to experiment, risk and explore innovative ways of expression, always maintaining the quality and aesthetic discourse of each style.
This first time around, Augustine Kofie is in charge of inaugurating the walls of the gallery with his exhibition Yesterday’s Advance | Avances del Ayer. In it, he depicts a moment, an experience, materialized into tangible artworks. Every piece is a result of his recent residency in Mexico City.
His use of recycled materials, geometric composition, collages, a mixture of paper and ochre tones, emphasize the Californian artist’s experimental nature as the main creative agent in the pieces of Yesterday’s Advance | Avances del Ayer. Kofie portrays his fascination for structures and architectural forms through the use of earthly tones to create a modern dynamism in the composition, a style he calls “vintage futurism.” Renowned in the urban art world for the quality and detail of his pieces, Kofie portrays his obsession with perfect angles and his immaculate linear work by reviving the washed out colors of certain façades, damaged by time and history. The peach, cream and turquoise tones of the Porfirian buildings of the Roma and Condesa neighborhoods as well as the art deco architectural ensembles are – consciously or unconsciously – the core of the pieces presented in this exhibition.
Exhibition will be open to the public from May 9 to June 6, 2014
Zacatecas 194, Col. Roma
Mexico City
Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
+ 52 (55) 6391 5541
paula@arto.mx
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Exhibition view at augustinekofie.info
Celyay Brothers Opening photos
