ART YARD
Unfinished Verses
Oct 19, 2024—Feb 9, 2025
A sketchbook is more than just a collection of pages for an artist — it’s a gateway to their creative universe, bridging the tangible world with the realm of ideas. Sketchbooks serve as a dynamic canvas where drawings, collages, and artistic explorations overlap and interact. Across the pages, various artistic moments converge, allowing old solutions to make way for new possibilities. Thus, a sketchbook becomes a living document of artistic evolution — a personal journal that captures the essence of an artist’s journey through every line and stroke, all within a compact space.
The exhibition is designed to create spaces where viewers engage with the artwork through curiosity and reflection, rather than a superficial glance. It invites a slower, more immersive experience, revealing the intricacies of artistic processes through pages that have been sewn, torn, stained, and weathered over time. Visible through small apertures in specially made viewing devices, the sketchbook pages will be turned regularly to reveal new drawings, shown one at a time, over the exhibition’s three-month span.
Unfinished Verses is curated by Alexandre Arrechea. It features work by Bhakti Baxter, El Celso, Rakeem Cunningham, Rafael Domenech, Fernando Rodríguez Falcón, Nereida García Ferraz, Shizu Saldamando, Paula de Solminihac, Paola Vega, and Tomas Vu.