luis garcia-nerey

With Bosque IV, Kollabs artist Anke Schofield and Luis Garcia-Nerey embark on yet another installment of their ongoing collaborations for their second solo exhibition at Gilman Contemporary. Their fascination for forest life and its inhabitants continues but now takes on a new interest. In their previous works, the focus was on forest animals, the relationships amongst themselves and their environment. For this exhibition the pair emphasizes on the parallels that exist within human society and the animal kingdom. Not only do they comment on these similarities but in addition create a grouping of works that cohesively interconnect to create a theatrical and compelling narrative.

Kollabs, short for collaborations, is a ongoing visual art project founded by myself and my great friend Anke Schofield. Collectively we've been working as professional artists for over twenty years. With Kollabs, Anke and I have brought forth our individual ideas and aesthetics to create various series of works exhibited throughout North America and abroad. In our new Figurative works we've introduced figures instead of animals as the subject matter. We are interested in the silent dialogue within the pieces and between the works and the viewers.

In our Animal works the main subject matter thus far, has focused on forest life and animals. Particularly, the natural hierarchy within the forest inhabitants and the parallels we see in them within today’s modern day social structure.