Bosco Sodi

Bosco Sodi (b. 1970, Mexico City) is a New York-based artist known for his richly textured, vividly colored large-scale paintings and sculptures. Sodi plumbs the emotive power within the essential crudeness of the materials that he uses to execute his artworks. By focusing on material exploration, the creative gesture, and the spiritual connection between the artist and his work, Sodi seeks to transcend the limitations of purely conceptual barriers.

Another Brick in the Wall 

As part of the USF Contemporary Art Museum exhibition The Visible Turn: Contemporary Artists Confront Political Invisibility, USFCAM presented the public installation and performance of Muro, a 6.5-foot-high by 26-foot-long wall constructed and then deconstructed using 1,080 unique clay brick timbers. This installation led to the Graphicstudio collaboration Another Brick in the Wall, expanding upon Sodi’s ongoing interest in organic processes beyond the artist’s control. Bosco selected multiple bricks from the Muro project and collaborated with Graphicstudio artisans to apply a glossy, crackled white glaze, reminiscent of his white paintings, freezing them in time. Sodi states that “even if they are different now, they are still another brick in the wall”. Each brick is presented in a custom Japanese style box constructed from Douglas Fir with a continuous wrap around grain for display. 

Another Brick in the Wall is an example of Sodi’s continued interest in wabi-sabi, the traditional Japanese aesthetic which embraces beauty that is “imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete” in nature. 

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