David Castillo is proud to present My First 25,000 Years on Earth, a solo exhibition of new worksby Pepe Mar. Imagine, if you will, a spiral, like the “spiral kiss” Mar referenced in a 2022 talkat the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art—at some points, the coils are adjacent to each other, nestled side-by-side. My First 25,000 Years on Earth is a large-scale Gesamtkunstwerk, and each work comprising it encompasses the spiral of Mar’s prismatic practice—its origins and its path forward. Most of them serve as poignant reflections on the artist’s history, reimagining the past and alchemizing the future into something entirely new. My First 25,000 Years on Earth, then, allows Mar to consider where he’s been as he enters a new era; the rest of us, thankfully, get to accompany him.
