Mexico City.– The work Saloma Lvix, of the Oaxaca artist Paola Dávila, was stolen from Patricia Conde Gallery in full assembly of the exhibition where it would be exhibited.
This happened last Tuesday, April 29 around 5:00 p.m., when a man in about 40 years entered the last room of the enclosure in general Juan Cano 68, in the San Miguel Chapultepec neighborhood, and simply dismantled the piece of the wall, according to the space.
“He put it in a bag (of supermarket), and went out immediately afterwards,” describes Patricia Conde’s staff in a written writing to Reforma. “A few minutes later, the gallery team noticed the lack of the piece, and called the police to begin the corresponding inquiries,” they say, and the police were notified.
However, so far a formal complaint has not been made before Public Ministry.
Only 50 minutes after having taken the work, a cyanotypy on silk of 56 by 56 centimeters, the man would have tried to sell it to another gallery in the Condesa neighborhood, of which Patricia Conde learned after sending colleagues information about theft. “Unfortunately, we do not know more about the whereabouts of the piece since last Tuesday, and we would appreciate, if someone has seen or tried to sell it, to get in touch with the staff of Patricia Conde Gallery, to share it with the competent authorities and follow up on the complaint,” they ask. Created as part of the Salomas series, the subtracted work was contemplated in the collective exhibition, which follows experimentation, processes, alchemy, which opened on April 30 and also presents the work of artists such as Antoine D’A Agata, Cannon Bernáldez, Alexandra Germán, Javier Hinojosa, the interspecific group, Margot Kalach and Yael Martínez. “They are works that cannot be done with a camera or a cell phone. They demand time, matter, error, body and presence.” Each image is the result of an intimate and artisanal process, where the photograph [email protected].
