Renata Morales: Inane and mundane evolutionary tales of fear love and horror

Morales’ work is about moving past a critical disposition. Her post-conceptual thinking, in which ideas – along with personal artistic directives – become more important than the final objects pave the way for construction and deconstruction to exist in harmonious chaos. Here, labour and irreverence trumps the middle-class myth that art must revere antiquated notions of classical figurative painting or sculpture.

Her works reflect and sometimes reject numerous cultural references – from Renaissance painting, to early European modernism, to present day urban markings and graffiti. Morales’ approach to her art that incorporates faces, figures, and abstract classical forms are the core of her practice. She is not content with general surrealist connections, but in examining larger social structures and the history of craft and its influences. Every work is a manifesto that proves that art is alive and kicking and that even in mayhem there is method.

Tues – sat 11.00 – 6.00
Sunday 12.00 – 5.00
Monday – closed

Dallas Contemporary
161 glass street
Dallas Texas 7T207

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