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Bosco Sodi (b. 1970) is a Mexican artist known for his layered and inventive canvases who also engages in and supports a robust social practice. In recent years, Sodi has drawn attention for his project Muro, taking place in 2017 in Washington Square Park in New York, and again in 2018 in London. Muro entails a wall “Made by Mexicans” for visitors to take down. In 2014, Sodi launched Fundación Casa Wabi on the coast of the Mexican state of Oaxaca, to foster interaction between artists and the local community. To draw attention and support to this initiative, Sodi invited Alberto Ríos, former curator at Casa Wabi, to co–curate an exhibition of Mexican abstract artists, some of whom had been residents at Casa Wabi. The resulting exhibition, Approaching Abstraction, runs concurrent with Sodi’s solo exhibition at Blain|Southern in London (Heavens and the Earth), both through March 23, 2019. For this video, Ríos talks about the young artists featured in the show who are experimenting with abstraction in ways that veer from Mexican traditions of the same format.
