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Durban Segnini Gallery, in collaboration with Alonso Garcés Galería (Colombia), presents The Silent Paths, an exhibition bringing together works by Carlos Medina (Venezuela, b. 1953) and Pedro Tagliafico (Venezuela, 1944–2020).
The exhibition also serves as a commemoration of Medina’s 50th year artistic career and his first exhibition with Galería Durban in Caracas in the (1970-80s?). The Silent Paths brings into dialogue their two singular practices, tracing parallel investigations of space, line, and the thresholds of perception. The exhibition unfolds as in a quiet convergence, where line and space trace trajectories that evade immediate perception. In Medina’s work, nearly immaterial structures evoke the invisible passage of forces that traverse the world without leaving a trace, while Tagliafico’s evolving grids map a sustained, introspective journey through repetition, dissolution, and return. Together, their works trace paths that are not declared but intuited, subtle movements between presence and absence, form and disappearance.
Founded in Caracas in 1970 and based in Miami since 1994, Durban Segnini Gallery has played a key role in the international promotion of modern and contemporary artists linked to abstraction in Latin America.
For over two decades, it has established itself as a specialized platform for non-figurative practices that, through rigorous formal research, explore the aesthetic, philosophical, and sensory dimensions of abstract language.
With a coherent and sustained exhibition program, the gallery has contributed to bringing visibility to foundational historical figures of Latin American geometric abstraction, articulating a critical narrative that engages with international avant-gardes from a historically informed and culturally relevant perspective. Exhibitions, publications, and institutional collaborations have allowed Durban Segnini to serve as a key agent in the dissemination and reappraisal of these artists beyond their places of origin.
Today, the gallery’s curatorial focus seeks to expand that historical mission by fostering meaningful connections between different generations of abstract artists. Its program proposes a renewed reading of Latin American abstraction, in which the geometric tradition is reinterpreted and transformed in dialogue with contemporary practices that explore new spatial, social, and affective dimensions of non-figurative art.
