In “La Filosofía en el Tocador”, Armando de la Garza presents us new executive lines that do nothing but enrich a firm reflection always materialized in surprising pieces. They are spaces that break with the most schematic or representative traditions of the classic boudoir.
The objects that he choses have an ambiguous and disturbing connotation due to the hierarchy in which they are found, and through his work seeks to challenge it. As Confucius said: "Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."
3.3, 2019
3.3, 2019
From the series "La filosofía en el tocador"
Antique gas mask with the intervention of porcelain, steel, and hair.
Dimensions: 31.5 H x 11.82 W x 7.09 D in.
Born in the city of Monterrey Nuevo León in 1973, Armando de la Garza began his painting studies at a very young age. But it was not until 1995 that he finished studying architecture and began his professional career in the art world. He has exhibited in more than 40 group exhibitions in the USA, France, Austria, Czech Republic, Hong Kong, Australia, Italy, Spain, and Mexico. Individually he has exhibited more than 25 times highlighting "anywhere this maybe" in Ginocchio Gallery in DF, "Once Upon a Time" at the Center for the Arts of the city of Monterrey, "ID" in Emma Molina Gallery, San Pedro Garza Garcia. "The Misfortunes of Virtue" Oblyon Gallery, Barcelona, Spain, "Horror Vacui" Gallery Isabel Croxatto, Santiago de Chile "Portraits of the court" eleventh alternative gallery or "Biota" in the space of Area Creative 42 in Rivarolo Italy among others. He has been awarded several awards such as the acquisition prize in the XVII Review of the plastic Nuevoleonesa and first place in the first biennial of the German Cultural Center as well as selections in the IX FEMSA Biennial and in different issues of the Review of plastic Nuevoleonesa, and the National Encounter of young art among others.