Perrotin New York exhibits works by Gabriel de la Mora
(Artdaily.org)

Perrotin New York is hosting Gabriel de la Mora’s first exhibition with the gallery. The unique methods and materials de la Mora uses—feathers, egg shells, and human hair, in this case—stem from the artist’s decision to “quit painting” in 2004. The result has been an exploration of alternative modes of image-making, wherein seemingly minimal and often monochrome-looking surfaces belie great technical complexity, conceptual rigor, and embedded information. The title of any work by de la Mora offers the first indication of a meticulousness that borders on obsession. With numbers for titles, the works reveal their constituent parts. 578 (2018) enumerates the 578 colored feathers that comprise the image, a high-octane pink and blue herringbone pattern a-la-Bridget Riley. Not unlike Riley and the Op-Artists, de la Mora is interested in a kind of optical illusion: that of crafting what appears to be a unitary