Johyun Gallery presents Dusks, a solo exhibition by Mexican contemporary artist Bosco Sodi, from November 22, 2024, to January 19, 2025, at Johyun Gallery_Seoul. This exhibition follows Dawns, held this fall at Johyun Gallery_Dalmaji. While Dawns metaphorically captured the light, energy, and movement of daybreak through the striking contrast of lavender monochrome works, gilded volcanic rock sculptures, and large-scale burlap works, Dusks offers a moment for introspection through the stillness, contemplation, and silence created by gray and black relief paintings. Like the natural passage from autumn into winter, these two exhibitions flow one into the other, their themes of day and night awakening our consciousness to life's ephemerality and time's ceaseless motion.
Bosco Sodi's distinctive textured relief paintings and sculptures appear as geological formations, something of chance encounters and uncontrollable elements that the artist faces during his creative process. Sodi collects unprocessed natural materials such as sawdust, clay, earth, and glue to create elemental and primal works through unconscious and instinctive expression. The artist particularly believes that the imperfections and intrinsic qualities of each material are crucial elements that manifest their essential character. This stems from his belief that works containing the passage of time and imperfections found in nature can help us understand the relationships between the cosmos, humanity, and the world.
Bosco Sodi's work, which has evolved across various media including painting, clay sculpture, and installation, eschews linear progression in favor of explorative garden-path approach to material and process. Since all existence is in perpetual flux, the transformative passage of time becomes the most crucial aspect of his practice. In preparation for this exhibition, Sodi reflected, "…everything is changing. I believe the more the works change, the more beautiful they become," adding that he "hopes the works will gradually move beyond the artist's hand and expand into different meanings through the viewers' interpretations."
Currently on view is Sodi's solo exhibition at He Museum in Forshan, China (November 10, 2024 - February 28, 2025), followed by a forthcoming presenation at Galería Hilario Galguera in Mexico City. The artist recently garnered significant critical attention for his dialogue with Izumi Kato at Ryosokuin Temple, Kyoto, where their two-person exhibition masterfully activated the historic space.