Daniel Guzman

The drawings, videos and installations of the Mexican artist Daniel Guzmán's (Mexico City, 1964) convey an ambiguous message of harsh reality and glorious fantasy. His installations with bright-coloured shopping bags, embroideries on tea towels or a children's toy that just won't work create parallel worlds that can be interchanged by free and sometimes freaky association. His drawings (large scale on paper and branded drawings on wood) stylistically combine precise abstraction with expressive figuration and comic strips gone wild. Guzmán's subjects and aesthetics are closely related to the history of rock, it's graphics and heroes. Just as the show in the Bakery, many of his works are referring to the American rockband The White Stripes. WHEN I HEAR MY NAME is Guzmán's first solo-show in the Netherlands.