Essential Particles

From May 22 to June 7, 2025

For 50 years, Venezuelan artist Carlos Medina has established himself as a geometric-spatial sculptor. Indeed, from his first solo exhibition at the age of 22 (in 1975) at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Caracas, Carlos Medina has embraced the legacy of Tatlin, Malevich, and Calder. Like them, he is convinced that art allows us to express a complete system for constructing the world. With sensitivity and poetry, he appropriates nature, rain, drops, and the neutrinos that reach us from the cosmos as visual elements implying a profound mystery. While drawing fosters the possibility of moving from a material object to a spatial, immaterial one, Carlos Medina displays a vast repertoire of forms and materials, as well as extraordinary inventiveness in generating two- and three-dimensional propositions. The Wagner Gallery celebrates this anniversary with a selection of representative works.

OPENING RECEPTION with the artist on Thursday, May 22nd at 6:30 p.m.