"White Cube Piñata”, 2014 / Paper, cardboard, candies, resin and plaster sculptures, confetti, letters (performance instructions), wooden letters, mirrors, postcards / 100 x 100 x 100 cm, 39 1/4 x 39 1/4 x 39 1/4 inches / Unique
White Cube Piñata it's a comment on minimal sculptural and also exhibition standards of installation, that passes trough a re-contextualisation by mixing this minimal form (the white cube) with the traditional Piñata, an object commonly used in South America in birthdays parties. The artist plays here with his origins and own cultural references, in between two cultures, but also two situations, the exhibition and the party. Something important is that the object, as happens with piñatas, is made to be broken during a celebration, so here, the White Cube is presented broke, inside of it there is plenty of small sculptures, performances instructions and many other references and winks to art history, popular culture and even sentimental things.
Courtesy Perrotin
