After successively presenting contemporary scenes from Japan, Chile, the Caribbean, Morocco and Papua New Guinea, the 193 Gallery's world tour continues in Mexico, through minimalism.
5 Mexican artists (sculptors and painters), used to most important international fairs, present their country through resolutely minimalist works.
To consume always more and faster; more money, more goods, more likes...
The minimalist "philosophy" is more than ever of actuality, as an answer to extreme consumerism, a necessary need to return to the essential.
Minimalism, an artistic current born in the mid-1960s in the United States inspired by geometric abstraction, in response to expressionism and pop art, is characterized by simple, raw, smooth and geometric forms. The works are stripped to the extreme.
These artists make their own the motto of the architect Mies Van Der Rohe "Less is more".
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