CURRO

About the Gallery
Established at the end of 2008 as Curro & Poncho - later relaunched as CURRO in 2013 - in Guadalajara, CURRO has become the longest running contemporary art gallery in a city burdened by its peripheric relationship towards the country’s capital. In an effort to expand beyond the country’s centralized gallery ecosystem, CURRO’s program aspires to articulate dialogues between diverse practices and artists whose own local interests engage a global audience. The program includes year-round in-house and institutional exhibitions, international art fairs, private and public art projects, and a variety of publications.

About the Presentation
CURRO will present work by Alejandro Almanza Pereda (b. Mexico City, 1977) and Juan Manuel Salas (b. Guadalajara, 1992) in a duo presentation at Independent. While, at first sight, it would seem that their practices are unrelated (Almanza Pereda being a more sculptural driven artist while Salas’ preferred medium is painting), their aesthetical and theoretical connections are undeniable. Both artists reference a variety of recurring motifs such as still life painting, landscape portraiture and a formal fixation on materiality. The moment seemed unmatchable to debut Salas’ work in New York City for he will be attending the prestigious Hunter University MFA program this fall, the same program Almanza Pereda graduated from over a decade ago.