General Expenses is pleased to announce Occidenterie, Marek Wolfryd’s second solo exhibition at the gallery.
Next Monday, February 3 at 4pm, as part of Material Monday, Marek Wolfryd will present an installation featuring a new series of paintings, sculptures and digital media. These works, following extensive research, examine themes such as mass-produced media, consumer culture, copyright, and the mechanisms of creation and distribution in art. Work that highlights the tensions between economy and culture, providing an eloquent and challenging reading on the role of art in contemporary society.
The exhibition will remain open to the public until March 22, 2025.
Marek Wolfryd is a multidisciplinary artist that explores the intersection of artistic and economic narratives in the context of culture, history, and society. Through a wide range of media, such as process art, readymades, sculpture, installations, video, and performance, Wolfryd reviews cultural movements and their aesthetic discourses, generally delving into micro-historical phenomena surrounding these great chronicles.
Through long-term research projects, Wolfryd builds a conceptual framework that exposes the complexity of certain narratives that exist both within and outside the spheres of symbolic influence of the Western world. His works reflect and explore the means of mass production, consumer culture, copyright, authorship, and the mechanisms of art creation and distribution.
Marek Wolfryd graduated from the E.N.P.E.G. “La Esmeralda” and the 2020 generation of the ISP of SOMA. His work has been individually presented in spaces like the Museo Universitario del Chopo, General Expenses gallery, the Carrillo Gil Art Museum, Chalton Gallery (now Somers) in London, Tiro al Blanco gallery in Guadalajara and Swivel Gallery in New York. He has been part of group exhibitions in institutions such as the National Numismatic Museum, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Alameda Art Laboratory, La Tallera, the Siqueiros Public Art Room, the Museum of the City of Querétaro, La Casa del Lago and the Museum of Arte Carrillo Gil, as well as in galleries and project spaces such as Karen Huber gallery, Salón Silicón, Salón COSA, Lodos, LLANO, Guadalajara 90210, Maleza Proyectos in Bogotá, Aoyama Meguro in Tokyo, Anonymus Gallery and Swivel Gallery in New York, John Doe Gallery and Human Resources in Los Angeles and CCA Espai in Mallorca.