nº36 / BOSCO SODI / ATLANTES / CASA WABI / MEXICO

Blain Southern, Paul Kasmin and Galería Hilario Galguera present an amazing site-specific installation by Bosco Sodi in Casa Wabi, Oaxaca, Mexico. 102.000 clay bricks are unveiled on 4 March 2019.

ATLANTES

THE WORLD OF 102.000 CLAY BRICKS

“A monumental scale dramatic structure"

Bosco Sodi

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Review by Zoltan Alexander

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"Atlantes" by Bosco Sodi / © video by Zoltan Alexander ZOLTAN+MEDIA

While “Heavens and the Earth” the latest exhibition of the New York based Mexican artist Bosco Sodi is still showing at Blain Southern London, on 4 March, the artist unveiled a new monumental site-specific installation “Atlantes “ situated in the largely uninhabited area near to Puerto Escondido along the Oaxacan coast in Mexico, nearby to the artist’s foundation, Casa Wabi.

"Atlantes”, the wildly ambitious work of land art, consists of 102,000 clay bricks and it is the result of a collaboration of three art galleries: Blain Southern (London), Paul Kasmin (New York) and Galería Hilario Galguera (Mexico).

THE FACTS

- over two years of construction

- the project consists of 64 cubes of 7 feet x 7 feet x 7 feet

- each cube is composed of 1,600 clay bricks

- the overall installation consists of 102,000 clay bricks, weighing over 700 tones