This June 13-18, works of Silverlens Gallery represented artists Gary-Ross Pastrana and Patricia Eustaquio will be featured in Art Basel’s VOLTA 7 fair, the first time Silverlens Gallery participates in the prestigious event.

VOLTA 7 puts focus on booth concepts as well as the work of individual artists, making it a more meaningful experience for both the artists and the viewer.

Both Pastrana’s and Eustaquio’s pieces focus on taking different parts of different objects and pieces, and making an entirely new creation with new meaning, feel and definition. They are hybrids.

Pastrana works within the framework of the process, while Eustaquio works within the framework of the image. Their work goes well beyond the modern once the works' elements have been broken apart or put together. Combining the two artists’ works is an exciting arena for presenting a new modern and a contemporized gothic.

Pastrana presents Abandoned Prototypes for Design Firm Broke. Initially constructing ‘designer chairs’ from discarded and excess materials, he has expanded this practice by placing them in houses and environments built for the objects. They are not far from the Pastrana’s two-dimensional constructed collages of art catalogues and magazines that are the bulk of the art world’s refuse. These materials are fused to form fresh and inventive images.

Eustaquio, on the other hand, expands from her combines of fauna and flora. In Two Campers in Cloud Country, flat materials are reinvented as three-dimensional objects, taking on narratives that are hybrids of craft and design, touching on myth and reverence/ irreverence for the modern and the gothic.

Words by Jel Tordesillas