[tartarus]

Even Less was a major exhibition of new works and installation by Mexican visual artist Pablo Delgado at Howard Griffin Gallery London. Delgado is known for abstracting existing images and rearranging them into new surreal scenes and compositions. It was the artist's first exhibition at the gallery.

The title of the exhibition reflected Delgado's obsessive focus in minimising and reducing his work to its smallest expression. The constant need to be less reflects the world's unsustainable requirement for resources and necessities. As a counterpoint to this, minimalism and an emphasis upon negative space become a paramount means of expression.

The upper level of the gallery was delineated into two distinct areas, one containing the other. In both, Delgado investigated the corresponding qualities of negative and positive space present in his work with an installation that gave attention to absence in order to give meaning to presence.

The installation saw Delgado remake and recast collected images and artistic works in subtle ways thereby creating new narratives and layers of meaning which reveal themselves upon closer inspection. Within Delgado's work objects and characters, seemingly unrelated and from different sources, are repositioned in new ways to pose questions about repetition, imitation, abundance and ephemerality. Colour is used sparingly to draw attention to individual elements in the work. The ironic and metaphorical works contain dark and foreboding messages that are drawn out by Delgado's strong sense of visual symbolism.

Delgado's oeuvre also extends to the urban environment where his cultivated experiments with negative space become ever more urgent and compelling to the viewer. The conceptual themes of Even Less were explored by Delgado contemporaneously on the streets of London.

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Another interesting show from Griff.

[JAlternatión]

I love Pablo's work... always nice spotting new ones of his popping up. Will try to get over to this

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Well they won't be hard to find then..

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Apr 26, 2014 21:52:48 GMT 1 tartarus said:

A few new street pieces from Pablo

I like this one, very good.

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I wonder if he'll do some more cut out books ?

[Dibbs 45]

Apr 26, 2014 22:34:46 GMT 1 @mikeydread said:

Well they won't be hard to find then..

Walking distance I think for you Mr Dread

[jayTown]

Looks like the previews are available now as well...

howardgriffingallery.com/uploads/documents/Pablo_Delgado_-_Even_Less_-_Buyer_Preview.pdf

howardgriffingallery.com/uploads/documents/Pablo_Delgado_-_Even_Less_-_Screeprints.pdf

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There's some nice pieces on that there pdf,i could be tempted.

[eschiff]

be interested to see this show. Bought a piece years back from Nelly Duff that I enjoy

[eschiff]

wow, his prices have gone up. Think i got my original for the price of what's now a screen print. Has he had a few shows?

I particularly like the postcards though in the pdf the small size of the medium makes his smaller figures more prominent

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You can still pick up his older prints for sub £100 from Nelly Duff.

I do really like this new stuff but its his street stuff that's best and seems to make most sense IMO.

[matp]

Apr 29, 2014 17:25:26 GMT 1 eschiff said:

wow, his prices have gone up. Think i got my original for the price of what's now a screen print. Has he had a few shows?

I particularly like the postcards though in the pdf the small size of the medium makes his smaller figures more prominent

Agreed!

[jayTown]

Apr 29, 2014 18:59:13 GMT 1 tartarus said:

Apr 29, 2014 17:42:36 GMT 1 @ekap said:

You can still pick up his older prints for sub £100 from Nelly Duff.

I do really like this new stuff but its his street stuff that's best and seems to make most sense IMO.

Sounds like the gallery is going to be an installation again, so you should be happy out in there too mate.

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An installation of his work would really work. Looking forward to this.

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Why have peoples pictures on this thread disappeared ?

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Ah yes, the old Vanishing picture trick, it makes you want to see them even more.

Or

They just went.

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Found it Wiz.

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May 8, 2014 10:46:28 GMT 1 tartarus said:

Now that my bandwidth is back! This is one of my favourite if not my favourite pic I've taken of street art.


It was from the Dulwich street art house last year.

I really like the look of this piece,not long now to the show,should be a cool arty night out ,as Mobstr is on the same night too.

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Also, the 20/21 International Art Fair is on at the RCA opens on the 15th from 12 noon.

Free tickets are available.

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Here's the info for the free art fair tickets :

www.pamglew.co.uk/files/pamglew/2021-Free.pdf

Has anybody got any pics of what's being set up in the gallery for Pablos show ?

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So,who's going tonight ?

[Dibbs 45]

May pop in and Mobstr round the corner.

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[Winter]

Wow, that queue is massive! I like his work but thought it would be relatively low-key. Really pleased he's getting recognition.