Galleri Nicolai Wallner is pleased to present an Online Presentation of works by Jose Dávila as part of his series Orden Discontinuo. Translated from the original Spanish, “Discontinuous order” is a series of silkscreens on cardboard that depict geometric compositions that accumulate and blend, generating a certain spontaneous rhythm and a sensation of order. 

Using imagery reminiscent of modernist abstraction, the cardboard fragments come together with elements that re-appear and disappear, hinting at a kind of hidden, visual language.

The use of cardboard is prevalent in Dávila’s practice, previously used in the execution of a series of “local adaptations” of iconic, minimalist sculptures. This process can be described as a material de-sacralisation, since it translates easily-recognisable sculptures into generic volumetric presences, as simple patterns for occupying space. Cardboard materialises these patterns, communicating them from its own fragility, symbolic connotations and locality.