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Wed Mar 5 - Sat Mar 29

Enrique Chagoya & Hung-Chih Peng


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Paule Anglim Gallery
14 Geary Street
San Francisco, CA 94108 map
cross street: Market St.
district: Downtown/Financial District

Wed Mar 5 (10am - 5pm)
Thu Mar 6 (5:30pm - 7:30pm) - Opening Reception
Fri Mar 7 (10am - 5pm)
Sat Mar 8 (11am - 5pm)
Tue Mar 11 (10am - 5pm)

Description
Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Enrique Chagoya.

His seventh solo show at the gallery will feature a new Chagoya codex work, a unique mock-historical format practiced by the artist for over twenty years. Chagoya’s codices mesh the new and the old, paying homage to the pictogram books central to the history and culture of the Mayans and Aztecs, while parodying popular and political icons of our day. Nearly all of the original pre-Columbian codices, colorful Amate bark-paper documents, were destroyed by the Spanish conquerors.

As a counterpoint to the scale and detail of the codices, Chagoya will present several large paintings on canvas. Emphasizing the large expanse of the surface he paints imposing natural environments (the open space of sea, the night sky, the universe) with a small superimposed text or figure, contrasting the immense and infinite ‘given’ with the limited means man has to understand and control it.