Bosco Sodi on Minimalism, imperfection, and the emotive power of art

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As painter and sculptor Bosco Sodi opens major solo shows in Malagá, Manhattan and Brooklyn, we visit his studio to discover a creative process that embraces the accidents of nature. A version of this story will appear in the December 2020 issue of Wal...

is then left out to dry for another few weeks, so it develops natural cracks and crevices that call to mind the arid landscapes of the artist’s native Mexico

The same deference to nature and chance is evident in Sodi’s sculptural works within the Kasmin show – six monumental terracotta-hued blocks, made from local clay at his Casa Wabi art centre in Puerto Escondido, Mexico. Formed by hand, dried in the sun and then fired in a traditional kiln with coconuts, wood and jacaranda seeds, their geometric forms are tempered by their cracked and scorched surfaces. Sodi calls the pieces ‘pre-industrial minimalist’.

The installation’s curator, Dakin Hart, describes its sculptures as ‘the petrified remnants – or organic vanguard – of a Jurassic invasion’. But beyond conjuring a prehistoric past or imagining a dinosaur-dominated future, Sodi hopes that ‘Perfect Bodies’ will root his viewers in the present, offering a breath of fresh air to those who have only recently returned to seeing art in person.

 

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