Homo Mensura
Wynwood Arts District
2441 NW 2nd Ave.
Miami, Fl. 33127
James Mathison
Homo Mensura
Ascaso Gallery presents James Mathison’s “Homo Mensura,” an exhibition proposing an excursion through some of his most significant work, fashioned during the years 1992 to 2012. It was Protagoras who stated that “man is the measure of all things”, and Mathison’s sculptures would appear to again take up this formula almost verbatim, maintaining an ambiguous position somewhere between man as a unique creature and man in the collective sense. His characters have a certain physiognomic affinity, as if they were the same subject in different emotional situations (meditation, introspection, melancholy, etc.). However, many of their facial features (eyes, mouths, and noses) offer a synthesis of diverse ethnic attributes, highlighting thick lips and subtly stylized eye sockets in the series of facts and figures alluding Asian culture.
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