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diptych recto overall
2,264 - He.Le. (1,271 He.Le. + 993 He.Le.)
diptych recto overall
diptych recto overall

2,264 - He.Le. (1,271 He.Le. + 993 He.Le.)

Series TitleLepidóptera
Artist Gabriel de la Mora (Mexican, born 1968)
Date2022
MediumDiptych of Hebomoia leucippe butterfly wings mosaic on museum cardboard
DimensionsAs installed: 13 3/4 × 31 1/2 × 2 3/8 inches (35 × 80 × 6 cm)
Framed (each): 13 3/4 × 13 3/4 × 2 3/8 inches (35 × 35 × 6 cm)
Image (each): 11 13/16 × 11 13/16 × 13/16 inches (30 × 30 × 2 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust through the generosity of Evelyn Craft Belger, Neil Karbank, Steve Karbank, and the George H. and Elizabeth O. Davis Fund
Object number2022.34.1.1,2
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionTwo mosaics made from butterfly wings.Exhibition History
“Gabriel de la Mora: Psicotropical.” Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, February 2–March 5, 2022
Gallery Label

Artist de la Mora, who is dyslexic, often rearranges visual phenomena into new patterns. He has written, "When you don't understand the information that is in front of you or what you hear, it immediately transforms itself into fragments, noise, sounds and in an infinite amount of things that have nothing to do with the reality of things or with what the things really are."

Here, de la Mora rearranged hundreds or thousands of butterfly wings, which he collected from ethically managed conservation farms, into mosaic-like patterns. Butterflies communicate through their coloration. This rearrangement, therefore, transforms the ways the butterflies "speak" in the natural world and creates a new language of pattern.

Provenance

The artist;

 

Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City;

 

Purchased by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, December 2022.

Published References

Gabriela Rangel, “Gabriel de la Mora: Lepidoptera,” Perrotin New York, exhibition brochure. Perrotin New York, 2021.

Copyright© Gabriel de la Mora
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recto overall with frame
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recto overall with frame
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recto overall with frame
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2022
2022.34.2
PR side overall (as installed)
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Pin
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