BOSCO SODI (Mexico City, 1970)."Barcelona", 2006.Mixed media on canvas.With label of Il Museo Internazionale di Arti Applicate Oggi, on the back.Signed, dated and titled on the back.Measurements: 180 x 180 cm.In Sodi's work, the connection with the land, with the raw materials linked to each place prevails, so that each painting is uniquely related to the place where it was created. He explores gesture and matter in connection with the spiritual, using raw materials: pigments, sawdust, natural fibres, resins, volcanic elements... giving a textured result. Based in New York, Barcelona, Berlin and Mexico City, Bosco Sodi is a young and renowned Mexican artist with a self-taught background, who has become the heir to the tradition of Informalism and Abstract Expressionism. He points to Rothko and Tàpies as two of his masters; he admires the former for his masterful use of colour, and the latter for his interpretation of material and his appreciation of oriental sensibility. Sodi's work has gone through different periods, the result of his research. In his own words, he uses painting as "an inexhaustible source of new sensations", and defines it as "painting of the soul". The dazzling chromatism reflected in his work, and the explosion of vitality it contains, are intimately linked to the materials, which give shape to magmatic orographies. To achieve this material expressiveness he uses all kinds of elements, from sawdust to earth or iron filings, as well as large quantities of pigment. This conjunction of materials also has to do with the fact that Sodi conceives the physical act of painting as something telluric; he works the materials with his hands, directly, shaping them as a ploughman works the earth. On the other hand, chance also plays a leading role in his work: accident and the unexpected act as another element that gives shape to his works. Throughout his career, Bosco Sodi has held solo exhibitions in Spain, Mexico, Italy, Portugal, Colombia, Japan, the United States and Germany, the most recent being those held at the Museo de San Ildefonso in Mexico City and the Taka Ishii gallery in Kyoyo (Japan), both in 2012. He has also held personal exhibitions at important art centres such as the Bronx Museum in New York, the Casa de Asia in Barcelona, the Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya and the Museo Internazionale delle Arti Applicate Oggi in Turin. He has also taken part in group exhibitions all over the world, and participated in fairs such as Art Basel, FIAC, ARCO, FRIEZE, MACO, Hong Kong Art Fair, CORNICE, SCOPE Basel, Los Angeles Art Show, China International Gallery Exposition, Art Cologne, etc.