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"When most artists talk about making site-specific works, they mean they tailor objects to suit a destined setting. But in Bosco Sodi\u2019s lingo, the term refers instead to his artworks\u2019 origins. Sodi travels constantly between four far-flung studios\u2014in Barcelona, Berlin, Brooklyn, and his native Mexico\u2014each of which, he says, provides a unique climate and local materials that give his pieces environmental individuality.\n\nSodi builds massive, ecstatically colored, quasi-sculptural paintings through a singular process: In a marathon 24-hour-plus session, he dumps as much as a thousand pounds of a sludge made of sawdust, pigment, water, and glue atop the canvas by hand. Then he lets it dry. Over time (20 days in his arid Mexican beach studio, two and a half months in New York\u2019s humidity), the surface solidifies and cracks like cooling lava. Factors such as artificial heat in winter and the type of wood used for the sawdust affect the rhythm of the cracking. \u201CI like that variation, chance,\u201D he says. \u201CI don\u2019t like control. When it gets predictable, it gets boring.\u201D\n\nThe artist.\n\nBoring this work is not. Though he acknowledges that his pieces teeter on the edge of decorative, Sodi insists that \u201Csimple is still beautiful\u201D and disdains overly conceptual art. His paintings are nevertheless completely contemporary in their ability to abstractly evoke both nature and decay; in their gentle needling of minimalist conventions; and in their art-historical references (especially to Antoni T\u00E0pies, another materials devotee).\n\nSince moving his home base to Brooklyn from Barcelona only two years ago, Sodi, already well-known in Europe and Japan, has had an impressive debut at the Bronx Museum of the Arts and signed with the Pace Gallery, which will give him a major exhibition this month.\n\nStaying in New York for the run of the show won\u2019t be easy, however. Sodi\u2019s peripatetic lifestyle may contribute to his self-diagnosed ADD, but being back in one of his studios serves as therapy. \u201CThe only time I can rest my mind,\u201D he says, \u201Cis when I\u2019m painting.\u201D"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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