Exhibition
Raùl De Nieves holds a new solo show, Carnage Composition, at the Company Gallery.
It begins with an ending. Misfortune was the genesis of the central sculpture in this exhibition. A pile of fear and failure and a broken heart kindled the question of what to do with the remains. Rather than yield to fate, Raúl leaned into the symbolic moment and resurrected the misfortune. “The Deaths of Every Day” performs its own self-destruction and tries to transform despair into destiny. Impaled and uplifted by an armature of steel beams, the figure is liberated by its undoing. It reminds me of Titian’s “Flaying of Marsyas”, a body picked at by flies, dying away, a body ruined in order to free the soul. Little beads and bits of shitty thrift store sequins shine with renewed secrecy. The sculpture is dressed in elevated death drag.
– Expert from the press release.
5 May – 11 June 2022
Company Gallery, New York, US
