RICARDO RENDON

JGM. Galerie is pleased to present Making Evidence, the first solo exhibition in Paris of the artist Ricardo Rendón (Mexico City, 1970).

Making Evidence presents a series of works composed by interventions in different spaces and materials. Hand perforated blinds, a cinder wall spattered with pigment or industrial felts trimmed in organic shapes appear as document and testimony of different work procedures within the exhibition space, turning it into a setting determined by the creative experience, an ambient where the work is presented as a fact and evidence of the creative execution.

Gathering different materials and including multiple formal solutions, the works of Ricardo Rendón act as a complex diary where the actions are registered, documented and accumulated. "His works are an appendix of construction or destruction practices that enunciate the moment where things happen, forms that propose the action as leitmotiv." (David Miranda, 2007)

"Ricardo Rendón proposes an epic that assaults architectures and objects equally. Its working project establishes a direct dialogue with the capital gain originated by the difference between the wages paid to the worker and the value generated by its manpower within the capitalist system. It is a query on the work and its sense by means of the experience. A narrative that the artist establishes leaving in most cases the waste of its activities within the place of intervention: swept to a corner, gathered inside a transparent container or scattered around the working site. Thus, he proposes a gesture that alludes to its procedure, a commemoration of every moment destined to the production of the capital gain. His work includes reflections that go from the micro to the macro, continuously restituting the work of the artist by its execution in a direct dialogue with the edification - construction.

Rendón constructs an aesthetic derived from the Hegelian dialectic of the master and the slave, determining that the truly free individual will be the slave. This last one is who works with the objects, learning to be different from them by its manipulation and transformation." (Lourdes Morales, 2009)