Pablo Rasgado
 Strata

The human mark that composes hospitable territories constitute the field of action for Pablo Rasgado. His work consists on mapping, organizing and reconstructing the matter of these spaces. In his lands, either landscapes, museums, homes or, ultimately the body itself, the poetic makes its way over the physical through a kind of transforming alchemical process.

Folded, unfolded and refolded Strata makes up the horizon that Rasgado traces in his first solo exhibition in Madrid. The two works presented summarize thoroughly the mentioned artistic strategies which the artist has been applying since the beginning of his career. In Strata, the transmutation begins with the work Vanishing Act, composed by two stages: the fore and the backside of an action in which Rasgado superimposes layers of images -strata- resulting an opaque surface where form and time are condensed.

 The eighty photographs overplayed in the first piece are barely visible in the slide show that is its second stage and shows the assembling process. In the latter, the strata unfolds in a sort of inverted process partially revealing the contents of the wall, the photographic matter is revealed, from paper to celluloid. The work Horizon closes the show. It literally brings a wall of a certain house chosen by the artist. A stratification where posters and wall, faded images and transforming processes are replicated in the form of sculpture. In the brief but intense journey of this exhibition, the event of transformation takes place. The lightening print of the photographs and their projection solidify, sculpture becomes landscape, portrait and stratum.


Yara Sonseca Mas


 Pablo Rasgado (1984 Zapopan, Jalisco, México) has shown his work at the Blue Project Foundation (2019); MOCA Tucson, (2018) at the galleries Steve Turner, Los Ángeles (2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017); Arratia Beer, Berlín (2012, 2014); OMR, Ciudad de México (2013); and in the Museo Experimental El Eco, Ciudad de México (2011). He has taken part in collective exhibitions at the 11ª Bienal do Mercosul (2018); the XIII Bienal de Cuenca (2016); CAM Raleigh (2014); The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2013); Ex Magazzini di San Cassian, collateral artistic events at the 55 Bienal de Venecia; Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel (2013); Museo Carrillo Gil, Ciudad de México (2012); and the Museo de Arte Moderno de la Ciudad de México (2010).