Don't ever work!
Benjamín Torres
11/05/2021 - 01/15/2022
About the Exhibition

Pequod Co. presents Don´t ever work! by Benjamín Torres, from November 5th, 2021 at Lancaster 29.

For this exhibition, Torres produced a large-format, three-dimensional piece that takes urban graffiti, photographed around his immediate surroundings in Mexico City, as a starting point. By becoming sculptural, this body of work speaks about the relationship between form, space and text and articulates the famous and incendiary situationist scribble that the show owes its name to.

Likewise, he generated a group of carved concrete reliefs that address graffiti from a historical conception inspired by "Graffiti”, a series of photos produced by Brassaï between the 30s and 50s in the City of Paris, before the commercialization of spray paint.

Exhibited Works
Benjamín Torres
Visages après Brassaï (de la serie Dislocaciones Demarcadas) 01
CNC cut concrete and pigments
35.43 x 23.62 x 1.77 inches
2020
Benjamín Torres
Visages après Brassaï (de la serie Dislocaciones Demarcadas) 03
CNC cut concrete and pigments
35.43 x 23.62 x 1.77 inches
2020
Benjamín Torres
Visages après Brassaï (de la serie Dislocaciones Demarcadas) 04
CNC cut concrete and pigments
35.43 x 23.62 x 1.77 inches
2020
Benjamín Torres
Visages après Brassaï (de la serie Dislocaciones Demarcadas) 05
CNC cut concrete and pigments
35.43 x 23.62 x 1.77 inches
2020
Benjamín Torres
Visages après Brassaï (de la serie Dislocaciones Demarcadas) 06
CNC cut concrete and pigments
35.43 x 23.62 x 1.77 inches
2020
Benjamín Torres
Visages après Brassaï (de la serie Dislocaciones Demarcadas) 07
CNC cut concrete and pigments
35.43 x 23.62 x 1.77 inches
2020
Benjamín Torres
Visages après Brassaï (de la serie Dislocaciones Demarcadas) 08
CNC cut concrete and pigments
35.43 x 23.62 x 1.77 inches
2020
Benjamín Torres
Visages après Brassaï (de la serie Dislocaciones Demarcadas) 09
CNC cut concrete and pigments
35.43 x 23.62 x 1.77 inches
2020
Benjamín Torres
Marcando los cuatros puntos kardinales
Steel, Duroc, enamel, spray paint and permanent marker
47.24 x 31.49 x 47.24 inches
2021
Benjamín Torres
Marcando los cuatro puntos kardinales (reverso)
Steel, Duroc, enamel, spray paint and permanent marker
47.24 x 31.49 x 47.24 inches
2021
Benjamín Torres
¡No trabajes jamás! (intervenida por Atardecer Dwsk, Fixka Love y Ofier)
Atardecer Dwsk, Fixka Love and Ofier; steel, wood, enamel, spray paint and permanent marker
Variable dimensions
2021
Install Shots
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