DAVID LAMELAS

(B. 1946)

Woman Running in Twelve Sections (1965 - 2018), 2018

Footnotes

Provenance
Courtesy of the artist and Sprüth Magers

Woman Running in Twelve Sections (1965 - 2018), 2018, is a print originally produced with the renowned printmaker, Cirrus Editions, that revisits a painting the artist created in 1965, at the very start of his career. In this period, Lamelas was incorporating the dual influences of Pop Art and Minimalism coming from the United States and Europe, fusing them together into a composition that is both figurative and abstract. A metallic surface (a mirror in the original work from the 1960s), disrupts the image of a young woman, who moves left to right across the work, moving in and out of the viewer's field of vision. As the original painting is lost to time, Lamelas's print brings it back to life in a new form, creating a temporal arc bridging the many decades of his practice.

David Lamelas (b. 1946) is a key figure in the history of conceptual art and experimental film. His nomadic practice comprising film and video, performance, photography, sculpture, installation and drawing is as pioneering as it is complex, eluding tidy categorization. Works by the Argentina-born artist, who lives between Los Angeles, Buenos Aires and Paris, with important years spent in London, focus on the viewer's own perception and the mechanisms of cultural production. Central to Lamelas's oeuvre is the notion of time and what people make of it.

Lamelas lives in Los Angeles and Buenos Aires. Selected solo exhibitions include Dia Foundation, New York (forthcoming, 2026), Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare, Bolzano (2023), Hunter College Art
Galleries, New York (2021), CGAC – Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela (2021), MSU, Broad Museum Michigan and MALBA, Buenos Aires (both 2018), University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach (2017), Kunsthalle Basel and FRAC Lorraine, Metz (both 2014), Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (2013), Kunstmuseum Basel (2008), Secession, Vienna (2006), Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City (2005), ICA Philadelphia (2004), Kunstverein München, Munich and Witte de With, Rotterdam (both 1997). Selected group exhibitions include MAMBA, Buenos Aires (2018), Documenta 14, Kassel and MACBA, Barcelona (both 2017), Inhotim, Mexico City and Museum of Modern Art, New York (both 2016), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2014), Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2008), Documenta 5, Kassel (1972), Venice Biennale (1968) and São Paulo Biennial (1967).