Overview
- The exhibition opens January 17 at Galería 526 of the Seminario de Cultura Mexicana in Mexico City with free admission through March.
- Works center on cube-based chairs and transformed objects that explore three-dimensional space and the body’s occupation of it.
- Organizers describe more than 60 object-sculptures with paintings and intervened items, while Coen earlier noted 52 chairs that could grow to 60.
- The series traces back to a chair prototype from three decades ago that the artist revisited during recent intensive studio work prompted by health constraints.
- Coen frames the show as a dialogue with Octavio Paz and figures including Man Ray, Giorgio de Chirico and Paolo Uccello, complemented by a book conversation with Felipe Leal.