Sundaram Tagore is pleased to present an exhibition of richly colorful abstract paintings by acclaimed Mexican artist Ricardo Mazal. Created during the recent closures, this new body of work draws from all his most powerful series of the last twenty years. Mazal's work has always been rooted to a specific event, experience or place, from the tomb of the Red Queen in Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico to the Old Jewish Cemetery of Prague. However, for this series, he traveled inward for inspiration, skillfully bringing the past into the present by taking techniques and elements from earlier works in brand new directions and transforming them in contemporary ways.
Over the course of creating these works, Mazal, with the help of his oldest daughter Julia, created several videos chronicling his painting process.
Ricardo Mazal was born in Mexico City in 1950. He has exhibited extensively in galleries and museums throughout the Americas, Asia and Europe. Since 2000, he has had fourteen individual museum exhibitions in Mexico and the United States, including five retrospectives of his work at the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey (2000), the Museo de Arte Moderno de la Ciudad de México (2006), the Museo de Arte de Querétaro (2009), the Museo de Arte Abstracto Manuel Felguerez (2010) and the Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe, as well as thematic exhibitions in the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (2006), the Museo Nacional de Antropología (2004-2005) and the Centro Cultural Estación Indianilla, among others. In 2015 Mazal's work was included in Frontiers Reimagined, a Collateral Event of the 56th Venice Biennale.
Mazal's work is included in the permanent collections of The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City; Museo de Arte Abstracto Manuel Felguérez, Zacatecas, Mexico; Maeght Foundation, Paris; Centro de las Artes, Monterrey, Mexico; Cirque du Soleil, Montreal; the Peninsula Hotel, Shanghai; and Deutsche Bank, New York and Germany.
Mazal divides his time between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and New York City.

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