Arredondo \ Arozarena announces the third exhibition of the artist Gustavo Abascal, Heavy Matter.

Continuing his investigation on the medium of drawing and as an object itself, the horror, the occultism and the speculative fiction, the exhibition counts with different ideas about “concealment”.
Challenging the conventional and functional format of drawing in the sense of rolling, folding, conceiving and revealing; the idea of concealment resonates conceptually and literally at the same time in pieces that seem to hesitate to reveal themselves completely. The exhibition shows a large scale drawing roll, which entirely measures 1.20 x 20 meters, suspended from the wall and partially rolled up; also a collection of sketchbooks, from Abascal himself, framed with restricted accessibility.

Being a medium typically designated for the artist and without any intention of being public, the sketchbook is an intimate site, which testifies the artistic process and is the record of ideas and works to come. Even for the potential owner of these, the artwork will be revealed in part, leaving the rest in an enigma, unless it is unframed.
Heavy Matter, the title of the exhibition, also refers to the hidden universe, to the unthinkable and hidden phenomena, such as dark matter or antimatter, the opposite of matter, is known primarily as a theoretical possibility, which can be calculated and speculated, but never experienced directly. These phenomena are, perhaps, derived from the great source of contemporary mysticism: science.

In a more philosophical sense, “concealment” can also be understood as a limiting thought, that phenomena such as black holes or cosmic events can produce horror, not because they are monstrous, but because they maintain a limit to our understanding in the world we inhabit. 1 These are philosophical perspectives that have inspired Abascal in his creative process for this exhibition, as well as the challenges presented before the typical conception of the horror genre, the work of Abascal also seems to take new approaches to this medium and the object.

1. Eugene Thacker, In the Dust of this Planet, Horror of Philosophy, 2011.