Published by RM Verlag, 2025
Hardcover, 223 pages
22 x 27.6 cm | 8.75 x 10.75 in
Text by Tobias Ostrander, Maria Minera, Pablo Soler Frost
Text in English
ISBN: 9788410290402
Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Gabriel da la Mora La Petite Mort" at Museo Jumex, Mexico City, September 2025 - February 2026.
From the publisher:
La Petite Mort engages with the attraction of surfaces of De la Mora’s works and looks beyond them to the unconscious drives and desires that have been a consistent theme in the artist’s practice.
His meticulous process of collecting, cataloguing, and assembling fragments redefines the boundaries between drawing, painting, and sculpture.
De la Mora has achieved significant international acclaim and is exhibited in leading institutions worldwide, including The Drawing Center (New York), Museo Jumex (Mexico City), and Perrotin (Paris, New York), his work is held in major collections such as MOCA Los Angeles and the MFA Houston.
Accompanying the exhibition “Gabriel de la Mora: La Petite Mort” this edition includes an in depth reading of the artist’s work by the curator, Tobias Ostrander, accompanied by newly commissioned essays by art historian Maria Minera, and the writer and poet Pablo Soler Frost; each reflect on aspects of death, eroticism and transformation in De la Mora’s practice. This volume illustrates more than 80 works by the artist produced over the last 25 years. Numerous details show the precision and allure of his compositions which employ materials such as human hair, fragments of eggshells, butterfly wings and obsidian.